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תֶּמֶס

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8557

melting — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

Meaning

OpenScriptures lexical index

melting tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תֶּ֫מֶס: n.m. melting tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.m. melting (away);—כְּמוֹ שַׁבְּלוּל ת׳ יַהֲלֹךְ ψ 58:9 like a snail that goeth into melting (leaving slimy track).

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

Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: [which] melting away (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.

On Mova

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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