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# אָהַל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H167

**tent** — used 3 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

tent [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/167/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אָהַל: vb.denom. tent, move tent [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/167/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb.denom. tent, move tent from place to place (cf. Assyrian âʾilu(?) DlWNo. 4 & AGl) וַיֶּאֱהַל Gn 13:12, 18 (J), cf. ישֵׁב אֹהֶל (v. אֹהֶל); Impf. יַהֵל (contr. for יְאַהֵל) pitch one’s tent like nomad Is 13:20.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: he moved tent (2); he will pitch tent (1).

## In the verses

[Genesis 13:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.13.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.13.12/#tree)

אַבְרָ֖ם יָשַׁ֣ב בְּאֶֽרֶץ־כְּנָ֑עַן וְל֗וֹט יָשַׁב֙ בְּעָרֵ֣י הַכִּכָּ֔ר וַיֶּאֱהַ֖ל עַד־סְדֹֽם׃

*Word for word:* Abram he.dwelt in the.land of.Canaan and Lot he.dwelt in the.cities of the.valley and he.moved.tent to Sodom

*JPS 1917:* Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelt in the cities of the Plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom.

[Genesis 13:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.13.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.13.18/#tree)

וַיֶּאֱהַ֣ל אַבְרָ֗ם וַיָּבֹ֛א וַיֵּ֛שֶׁב בְּאֵלֹנֵ֥י מַמְרֵ֖א אֲשֶׁ֣ר בְּחֶבְר֑וֹן וַיִּֽבֶן־שָׁ֥ם מִזְבֵּ֖חַ לַֽיהוָֽה׃פ

*Word for word:* and he.moved.tent Abram and he.went and he.dwelt at the.great.trees of.Mamre which \[are\].at Hebron and he.built there an.altar to Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* And Abram moved his tent, and came and dwelt by the terebinths of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the LORD.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/167.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/167/): 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).