נֵפֶל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5309

untimely birth — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

Meaning

OpenScriptures lexical index

untimely birth tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נֵ֫פֶל: n.m. miscarriage, abortion tree →

The whole BDB entry

[נֶפֶל] n.m. Jb 3:16 miscarriage, abortion;—נֵ֫פֶל abs. Jb 3:16 (Baer, Ginsb., > van d. H. נֶפֶל), נָ֑פל Ec 6:3; cstr. נֵפֶל אֵשֶׁת ψ 58:9.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a miscarriage (2); miscarriage (1).

In the verses

Psalms 58:9 · tree →

כְּמ֣וֹ שַׁ֭בְּלוּל תֶּ֣מֶס יַהֲלֹ֑ךְ נֵ֥פֶל אֵ֝֗שֶׁת בַּל־חָ֥זוּ שָֽׁמֶשׁ׃

Word for word: like a.snail [which].melting.away it.goes a.miscarriage of.a.woman (of).[which].not they.have.seen [the].sun

JPS 1917: Let them be as a snail which melteth and passeth away; like the untimely births of a woman, that have not seen the sun.

Job 3:16 · tree →

א֤וֹכְנֵ֣פֶל טָ֭מוּן לֹ֣א אֶהְיֶ֑ה כְּ֝עֹלְלִ֗ים לֹא־רָ֥אוּ אֽוֹר׃

Word for word: or like a.miscarriage hidden not was.I? like children [who].not they.have.seen light

JPS 1917: Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants that never saw light.

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Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).

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