עַיִשׁ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5906

Great Bear — 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

Great Bear tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עַ֫יִשׁ: n.f. Great Bear tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.f. a constellation, perhaps Great Bear (cf. especially Di) (point perhaps עִיֻּשׁ (v. Bu and reff.), cf. Syriac ܥܺܝܽܘܬܳܐ PS2866, ܥܝܽܘܬܳܐ Brock., name of a star);—וְע׳ עַל־בָּנֶיהָ Jb 38:32 = עָשׁ 9:9 (both + כִּימָה, כְּסִיל etc.).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech differs, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (13 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech differs, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (8 candidates)

Glosses

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

In the verses

Job 38:32 · tree →

הֲתֹצִ֣יא מַזָּר֣וֹת בְּעִתּ֑וֹ וְ֝עַ֗יִשׁ עַל־בָּנֶ֥יהָ תַנְחֵֽם׃

Word for word: will you.lead.out? [the].constellations at its.appropriate time and.[the] Bear with ones its.young will you.guide.them?

JPS 1917: Canst thou lead forth the Mazzaroth in their season? Or canst thou guide the Bear with her sons?

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/עיש/