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# אֲגֻדָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H92

**band** — 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

band [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/92/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֲגֻדָּה: n.f. band [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/92/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. band (Mishn. אֲגוּדָּה cf. NHWB). pl. cstr. אֲגֻדּוֹת מוֹטָה bands, thongs (fastening ox-bow) metaph. of fetters of slavery Is 58:6. אֲגֻדַּת אֵזוֹב bunch of hyssop Ex 12:22. א׳ abs. band of men (cf. חֶבֶל. Eng. band) 2 S 2:25. אֲגֻדָּתוֹ vault of the heavens (as fitted together, constructed, cf. Ar. إِجَادٌ) Am 9:6.

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: \[the\] bindings (1); a bunch (1); band (1).

## In the verses

[2 Samuel 2:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.2.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.2.25/#tree)

וַיִּֽתְקַבְּצ֤וּ בְנֵֽי־בִנְיָמִן֙ אַחֲרֵ֣י אַבְנֵ֔ר וַיִּהְי֖וּ לַאֲגֻדָּ֣ה אֶחָ֑ת וַיַּ֣עַמְד֔וּ עַ֥ל רֹאשׁ־גִּבְעָ֖ה אֶחָֽת׃

*Word for word:* and they.gathered.together the.descendants of.Benjamin behind Abner and they.became (into).a band one and they.stood on \[the\].top of.a.hill one

*JPS 1917:* And the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together after Abner, and became one band, and stood on the top of a hill.

[Isaiah 58:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.58.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.58.6/#tree)

הֲל֣וֹא זֶה֮ צ֣וֹם אֶבְחָרֵהוּ֒ פַּתֵּ֙חַ֙ חַרְצֻבּ֣וֹת רֶ֔שַׁע הַתֵּ֖ר אֲגֻדּ֣וֹת מוֹטָ֑ה וְשַׁלַּ֤ח רְצוּצִים֙ חָפְשִׁ֔ים וְכָל־מוֹטָ֖ה תְּנַתֵּֽקוּ׃

*Word for word:* ? not \[is\].this \[the\].fast \[which\].I choose.it to.loosen \[the\].bonds of.wickedness to.unfasten \[the\].bindings of.\[the\].yoke-bar and to.let.go \[those.who.are\].crushed free and every yoke-bar you.will.tear.apart

*JPS 1917:* Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the fetters of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/92.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/92/): 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).