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# אוֹת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H226

**sign** — used 79 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

sign [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/226/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אוֹת: n.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/226/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m.79 Ex 4:8 (f. Jos 24:17) sign (Arabic آيَة, pl. آىٌ, Aramaic אָתָא, ܐܳܬܳܐ )—א׳ Gn 4:15 +; cstr. 9:12 +; pl. אוֹתוֹת Ex 4:9 + etc.— sign, pledge, token Gn 4:15 (J); אוֹת אֱמֶת true token Jos 2:12 (J); of blood of passover Ex 12:13 (P); אוֹת לְטוֹבָה token for good ψ 86:17; pledges, assurances of travellers Jb 21:29. signs, omens promised by prophets as pledges of certain predicted events 1 S 10:7, 9 + v 1 where א׳ ins. 𝔊 𝔙, vid. We Dr; especially phr. זֶה הָאוֹת לְ Ex 3:12; 1 S 2:34; 14:10; 2 K 19:29; Je 44:29; Is 7:11, 14; prob. also Is 44:25 (of false proph.). sign, symbol of prophets Is 8:18 cf. Ez 4:3. signs, miracles, as pledges or attestations of divine presence & interposition Ex 4:8(×2), 9 (J) 7:3 (P) 8:19 (J) ψ 65:9; 74:9; 2 K 19:29; 20:8, 9 = Is 37:30; 38:7, 22; c. עָשָׂה Ex 4:17, 30; Nu 14:11, 22; Jos 24:17 (all JE) Dt 11:3; Ju 6:17; c. צִוָּה Ex 4:28 (J); c. שִׁית 10:1 (J); c. שִׂים Ex 10:2 (J) ψ 78:43; Is 66:19; הָאוֹת וְהַמּוֹפֵת (v. מוֹפֵת Dt 13:3 cf. 28:46 Is 20:3; א׳ אוֹ מ׳ Dt 13:2; אוֹתוֹת וּמוֹפְתִים Dt 4:34; 7:19; 26:8; 29:2; Je 32:21; c. נָתַן Dt 6:22; Ne 9:10; c. שִׂים Je 32:20 ψ 105:27; c. שָׁלַח Dt 34:11 ψ 135:9. signs, memorials, stones from Jordan Jos 4:6 (J); metal of censers Nu 17:3 (P); Aaron’s rod Nu 17:25 (P); א׳ עוֹלָם Is 55:13 prob. also Ez 14:8 (‖ מָשָׁל); signs on hands, etc., Ex 13:9, 16 (J) = Dt 6:8; 11:18, prob. belong here; also memorial pillar in Egypt Is 19:20. sign, pledge of covenant, א׳ הַבְּרִית (v. ברית) e.g. rainbow, of Noachian covenant Gn 9:12, 13, 17 (P); circumcision, of Abrahamic covenant Gn 17:11 (P); the sabbath Ex 31:13, 17 (P) Ez 20:12, 20. ensigns, standards Nu 2:2 (P) ψ 74:4. signs, tokens of changes of weather & times Gn 1:14 (P; of heavenly luminaries) אוֹתוֹת הַשָּׁמַיִם Je 10:2 (changes of the heavens as omens to frighten the nations) cf. ψ 65:9.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 77 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (12 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (8 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: signs (32); a sign (14); sign (13).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 38:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.38.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.38.22/#tree)

וַיֹּ֥אמֶר חִזְקִיָּ֖הוּ מָ֣ה א֑וֹת כִּ֥י אֶעֱלֶ֖ה בֵּ֥ית יְהוָֽה׃ס

*Word for word:* and he.said Hezekiah what? \[will.be.the\].sign (dm).that I.will.go.up the.house of.Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* And Hezekiah said. 'What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORD?'

[Job 21:29](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.21.29/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.21.29/#tree)

הֲלֹ֣א שְׁ֭אֶלְתֶּם ע֣וֹבְרֵי דָ֑רֶךְ וְ֝אֹתֹתָ֗ם לֹ֣א תְנַכֵּֽרוּ׃

*Word for word:* ? not have.you.asked \[those.who\].pass.by of.\[the\].road and signs their not do.you.recognize?

*JPS 1917:* Have ye not asked them that go by the way; and will ye misdeem their tokens,

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/226.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/226/): 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).