עֵט

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5842

stylus — used 4 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

stylus tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֵט: n.m. stylus tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.m. Je 8:8 stylus (√ dub.; Köii. 1, 83 (after older authorities) cp. Arabic غوط, غَاطَ sink, penetrate);—ע׳ only cstr.: of iron, for use on stone or metal Je 17:1 (בְּצִפֹּרֶן שָׂמִיר with diamond-point), Jb 19:24 (v. also חֶרֶט). prob. = reed-pen (used on roll, cf. Je 36:2, 23 etc.), ע׳ שֶׁקֶר סֹפְרִים Je 8:8, fig., לְשׁוֹנִי ע׳ סוֹפֵר מָהִיר ψ 45:1 (cf. NowArch. i. 290 BenzArch. 290).

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 (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a stylus (3); [is] a stylus (1).

In the verses

Job 19:24 · tree →

בְּעֵט־בַּרְזֶ֥ל וְעֹפָ֑רֶת לָ֝עַ֗ד בַּצּ֥וּר יֵחָצְבֽוּן׃

Word for word: with a.stylus of.iron and lead forever in the rock they will.be.engraved

JPS 1917: That with an iron pen and lead they were graven in the rock for ever!

Psalms 45:2 · tree →

רָ֘חַ֤שׁ לִבִּ֨י ׀ דָּ֘בָ֤ר ט֗וֹב אֹמֵ֣ר אָ֭נִי מַעֲשַׂ֣י לְמֶ֑לֶךְ לְ֝שׁוֹנִ֗י עֵ֤ט ׀ סוֹפֵ֬ר מָהִֽיר׃

Word for word: it.is.aroused heart my a.word good [am].speaking I work(s) my to.[the] king tongue my [is].a.stylus of.a.scribe skilled

JPS 1917: My heart overfloweth with a goodly matter; I say: 'My work is concerning a king'; my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

On Mova

This word in the Tanakh dictionary on Mova free.
Trees and pragmatics of its meanings: every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

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).

This page in Markdown → https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/עט/