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# אֵגֶל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H96

**drop** — 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

drop [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/96/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֵ֫גֶל: drop collections, stores, reserve-supply [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/96/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] usually trans. drop, אֶגְלֵי־טָ֑ל dew-drops Jb 38:28 (‖ מָטָר) so Vrss De Di; Hoffm ‘Rückstände,’ ‘Ansammlungen,’ i.e. collections, stores, reserve-supply.

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 (2 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: \[the\] drops (1).

## In the verses

[Job 38:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.38.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.38.28/#tree)

הֲיֵשׁ־לַמָּטָ֥ר אָ֑ב א֥וֹ מִי־ה֝וֹלִ֗יד אֶגְלֵי־טָֽל׃

*Word for word:* \[is\] there? for the rain a.father or who? does.he.father \[the\].drops of.dew

*JPS 1917:* Hath the rain a father? Or who hath begotten the drops of dew?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/96.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/96/): 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).