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# אוּד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H181

**brand** — 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

brand [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/181/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אוּד: n.m. brand, fire-brand [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/181/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. brand, fire-brand (orig. perhaps bent stick used to stir fire) א׳ מֻצָּל מִשְּׂרֵפָה Am 4:11 = א׳ מ׳ מֵאֵשׁ Zc 3:2, pl. זַנְבוֹת הָאוּדִים הָעֲשֵׁנִים Is 7:4, stumps of smoking firebrands.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a piece of firewood (2); pieces of firewood (1).

## In the verses

[Amos 4:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.4.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.4.11/#tree)

הָפַ֣כְתִּי בָכֶ֗ם כְּמַהְפֵּכַ֤ת אֱלֹהִים֙ אֶת־סְדֹ֣ם וְאֶת־עֲמֹרָ֔ה וַתִּהְי֕וּ כְּא֖וּד מֻצָּ֣ל מִשְׂרֵפָ֑הוְלֹֽא־שַׁבְתֶּ֥ם עָדַ֖י נְאֻם־יְהוָֽה׃ס

*Word for word:* I.overthrew among you like the.overthrow of.God (et) Sodom and (et) Gomorrah and you.were like a.piece.of.firewood plucked.out from.\[the\] burning and not you.returned to me the.utterance of.Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a brand plucked out of the burning; yet have ye not returned unto Me, saith the LORD.

[Zechariah 3:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.3.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.3.2/#tree)

וַיֹּ֨אמֶר יְהוָ֜ה אֶל־הַשָּׂטָ֗ן יִגְעַ֨ר יְהוָ֤ה בְּךָ֙ הַשָּׂטָ֔ן וְיִגְעַ֤ר יְהוָה֙ בְּךָ֔ הַבֹּחֵ֖ר בִּירֽוּשָׁלִָ֑ם הֲל֧וֹא זֶ֦ה א֖וּד מֻצָּ֥ל מֵאֵֽשׁ׃

*Word for word:* and he.said Yahweh to the accuser may.he.rebuke Yahweh (in) you O accuser and may.he.rebuke Yahweh (in) you \[who has\].chosen (in) Jerusalem ? not \[is\].this a.piece.of.firewood plucked.out from a.fire

*JPS 1917:* And the LORD said unto Satan: 'The LORD rebuke thee, O Satan, yea, the LORD that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee; is not this man a brand plucked out of the fire?'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/181.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/181/): 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).