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# אֲבַעְבֻּעֹת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H76

**blisters** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

blisters [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/76/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֲבַעְבֻּעֹת²: n.f.pl. blisters, boils [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/76/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f.pl. blisters, boils (𝔗 אֲבַעְבּוּעְיָן; cf. 𝔗 בֶּעְבַּע, NH בַּעְבּוּעַ בּוּעָה, Syriac ܒܰܥܒܘܽܥ̈ܝܴܬܳܐ ) Ex 9:9 שְׁחִין פֹּרֵחַ אֲבַעְבֻּעֹת, cf. v 10.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 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: blisters (2).

## In the verses

[Exodus 9:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.9.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.9.9/#tree)

וְהָיָ֣ה לְאָבָ֔ק עַ֖ל כָּל־אֶ֣רֶץ מִצְרָ֑יִם וְהָיָ֨ה עַל־הָאָדָ֜ם וְעַל־הַבְּהֵמָ֗ה לִשְׁחִ֥ין פֹּרֵ֛חַ אֲבַעְבֻּעֹ֖ת בְּכָל־אֶ֥רֶץ מִצְרָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* and it.will.become (into) dust over all the.land of.Egypt and it.will.become on (the) humankind and on the livestock (into) boil\[s\] breaking.out blisters in all the.land of.Egypt

*JPS 1917:* And it shall become small dust over all the land of Egypt, and shall be a boil breaking forth with blains upon man and upon beast, throughout all the land of Egypt.'

[Exodus 9:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.9.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.9.10/#tree)

וַיִּקְח֞וּ אֶת־פִּ֣יחַ הַכִּבְשָׁ֗ן וַיַּֽעַמְדוּ֙ לִפְנֵ֣י פַרְעֹ֔ה וַיִּזְרֹ֥ק אֹת֛וֹ מֹשֶׁ֖ה הַשָּׁמָ֑יְמָה וַיְהִ֗י שְׁחִין֙ אֲבַעְבֻּעֹ֔ת פֹּרֵ֕חַ בָּאָדָ֖ם וּבַבְּהֵמָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and they.took (et) the.soot of.(the) kiln and they.stood before Pharaoh and he.sprinkled it Moses towards the heavens and it.became boil\[s\] blisters breaking.out on (the) humankind and on the livestock

*JPS 1917:* And they took soot of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses threw it up heavenward; and it became a boil breaking forth with blains upon man and upon beast.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/76/): 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).