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# אֵבֶה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H16

**reed** — 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

reed [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/16/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֵבֶ֫ה: reed, papyrus [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/16/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] reed, papyrus (etymology uncertain; = Arabic أَبَاءٌ, Assyrian abu DlW, AGl) אֳנִיּוֹת אֵבֶ֑ה Jb 9:26 (craft made of reeds, light & swift, Heliod.Aethiop. X, 460) = כְּלֵי־גֹמֶא Is 18:2.

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 (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Job 9:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.9.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.9.26/#tree)

חָ֭לְפוּ עִם־אֳנִיּ֣וֹת אֵבֶ֑ה כְּ֝נֶ֗שֶׁר יָט֥וּשׂ עֲלֵי־אֹֽכֶל׃

*Word for word:* they.have.passed.on with ships of.reed like an.eagle \[which\].it.rushes on food

*JPS 1917:* They are passed away as the swift ships; as the vulture that swoopeth on the prey.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/16.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/16/): 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).