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# אֶבְרָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H84

**pinion** — used 4 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

pinion [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/84/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֶבְרָה: n.f. pinion [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/84/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. pinion (nom. unit., poet.) of ostrich Jb 39:13; אֶבְרָתוֹ of eagle, sim. for י׳ Dt 32:11; metaph. of י׳ ψ 91:4; אֶבְרוֹתֶיהָ of dove ψ 68:14; (all ‖ כּנף).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 1 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, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: pinion (2); a pinion (1); pinions (1).

## In the verses

[Job 39:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.39.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.39.13/#tree)

כְּנַף־רְנָנִ֥ים נֶעֱלָ֑סָה אִם־אֶ֝בְרָ֗ה חֲסִידָ֥ה וְנֹצָֽה׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].wing of.ostriches it.flaps.joyously if a.pinion a.stork and plumage

*JPS 1917:* The wing of the ostrich beateth joyously; but are her pinions and feathers the kindly stork's?

[Psalms 91:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.91.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.91.4/#tree)

בְּאֶבְרָת֨וֹ ׀ יָ֣סֶךְ לָ֭ךְ וְתַֽחַת־כְּנָפָ֣יו תֶּחְסֶ֑ה צִנָּ֖ה וְֽסֹחֵרָ֣ה אֲמִתּֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* with pinion his he.will.cover (to) you and under wings his you.will.take.refuge \[is\].a.shield and a.wall faithfulness his

*JPS 1917:* He will cover thee with His pinions, and under His wings shalt thou take refuge; His truth is a shield and a buckler.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/84.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/84/): 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).