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# אֹודֹות

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H182

**cause** — used 11 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

cause [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/182/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אוֹדָה: n.f. cause [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/182/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. cause (perhaps orig. circumstance, cf. Sab. אוד enclosing wall)—only pl. אוֹדֹת Gn 21:11 +; אֹדוֹת Nu 12:1 +; (8 times + 2 S 13:16 vid.infra); אֹדוֹתַי Jos 14:6; אֹדוֹתֶיךָ ib.;—cause, always with על, & cstr., except Je 3:8, where sq. אֲשֶׁר; עַל־א׳ because of Gn 21:11, 25 Ex 18:8 Nu 12:1; 13:24 Ju 6:7 Je 3:8 (+ כָּל־); = concerning (on occasion of) Gn 26:32 Jos 14:6(×2); in 2 S 13:16 read, for אל־אֹדוֹת, אַל אָחִי כִּי 𝔊L It. We Dr.

Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: another 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 causes (8); causes (3).

## In the verses

[Judges 6:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.6.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.6.7/#tree)

וַיְהִ֕י כִּֽי־זָעֲק֥וּ בְנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל אֶל־יְהוָ֑ה עַ֖ל אֹד֥וֹת מִדְיָֽן׃

*Word for word:* and it.was (dm) they.cried.out the.people of.Israel to Yahweh on the.causes of.Midian

*JPS 1917:* And it came to pass, when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD because of Midian,

[Genesis 21:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.21.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.21.11/#tree)

וַיֵּ֧רַע הַדָּבָ֛ר מְאֹ֖ד בְּעֵינֵ֣י אַבְרָהָ֑ם עַ֖ל אוֹדֹ֥ת בְּנֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and it.was.displeasing the matter exceedingly in the.eyes of.Abraham on the.causes his.son his

*JPS 1917:* And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight on account of his son.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/182.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/182/): 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).