עָשַׁת
Biblical Hebrew
Meaning
OpenScriptures lexical index
be smooth tree →
Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906
עָשַׁת: vb. be smooth shiny tree →
The whole BDB entry
vb. be smooth or shiny (?), si vera l. (cf. עֶשֶׁת);—only Pf. 3 pl. שָֽׁמְנוּ עָֽשְׁתוּ Je 5:28 (fig.) they have grown fat, they are smooth (or shine, from fat); doubtful word, Thes conj. עָֽשְׁרוּ have grown rich (cf. 𝔊 𝔖 𝔗), so Gie (but וַיַּעֲשִׁירוּ precedes, v 27).
Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)
Glosses
MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: they have become smooth (1).
In the verses
שָׁמְנ֣וּ עָשְׁת֗וּ גַּ֚ם עָֽבְר֣וּ דִבְרֵי־רָ֔ע דִּ֣ין לֹא־דָ֔נוּ דִּ֥ין יָת֖וֹם וְיַצְלִ֑יחוּ וּמִשְׁפַּ֥ט אֶבְיוֹנִ֖ים לֹ֥א שָׁפָֽטוּ׃
Word for word: they.have.become.fat they.have.become.smooth also they.have.transgressed matters of.evil a.cause not they.have.pleaded [the].cause of.[the].fatherless and they.will.have.success and.[the] justice of.needy.[people] not they.have.judged
JPS 1917: They are waxen fat, they are become sleek; yea, they overpass in deeds of wickedness; they plead not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they might make it to prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
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