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# אָבַךְ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H55

**turn** — 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

turn [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/55/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אָבַךְ: vb. turn [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/55/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. turn (?) (cf. Assyrian abâku DlW = הָפַךְ; Thes MV al. compare בוך) וַיִּתְאַבְּכוּ Is 9:17, roll, roll up, as volume of smoke (of Isr. under fig. of thickets of forest) v. De & cf. הִתִהַפֵּךְ Ju 7:3.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Isaiah 9:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.9.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.9.17/#tree)

כִּֽי־בָעֲרָ֤ה כָאֵשׁ֙ רִשְׁעָ֔ה שָׁמִ֥יר וָשַׁ֖יִת תֹּאכֵ֑ל וַתִּצַּת֙ בְּסִֽבְכֵ֣י הַיַּ֔עַר וַיִּֽתְאַבְּכ֖וּ גֵּא֥וּת עָשָֽׁן׃

*Word for word:* (dm) it.has.burned like (the) fire wickedness thorn\[s\] and bush\[es\] it.consumes and it.has.kindled (in).the thickets of the.forest and they.have.swirled a.rising.up of.smoke

*JPS 1917:* For wickedness burneth as the fire; it devoureth the briers and thorns; yea, it kindleth in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in thick clouds of smoke.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/55.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/55/): 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).