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# אֹבֹת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H88

**Oboth** — 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

Oboth [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/88/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֹבֹת: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/88/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. (water-skins) station of Isr. in wildern. Nu 21:10, 11; 33:43, 44; not yet determ., prob. on eastern skirts of Idumæa not far from Moab; according to Wetzst in De Ct 168 Wêba, وَيْبَة in the Arabah, but identif. not prob.; cf. Di on Nu 21:10.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 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: Oboth (4).

## In the verses

[Numbers 21:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.21.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.21.10/#tree)

וַיִּסְע֖וּ בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וַֽיַּחֲנ֖וּ בְּאֹבֹֽת׃

*Word for word:* and they.set.out the.people of.Israel and they.encamped in Oboth

*JPS 1917:* And the children of Israel journeyed, and pitched in Oboth.

[Numbers 33:43](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.33.43/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.33.43/#tree)

וַיִּסְע֖וּ מִפּוּנֹ֑ן וַֽיַּחֲנ֖וּ בְּאֹבֹֽת׃

*Word for word:* and they.set.out from Punan and they.encamped at Oboth

*JPS 1917:* And they journeyed from Punon, and pitched in Oboth.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/88.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/88/): 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).