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# אָטָד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H329

**bramble** — used 4 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

bramble [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/329/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אָטָד: n.m. bramble, buck-thorn [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/329/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Ju 9:15 bramble, buck-thorn (cf. Che ψ 58:10) (rhamnus, Arabic أَطَد, Assyrian eṭidu v. DlW, No. 153, Aramaic אַטְדָּא, ܐܛܕܐ cf. Löw No. 15) contr. עֵצִים Ju 9:14, 15(×2) (personif., in fable); ψ 58:10 as fuel (in fig., cf. Che); בְּגֹרֶן הָא׳, n.loc., Gn 50:10, 11 (v. גֹּרֶן & אבל מצרים).

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 (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: bush (3); a thorn bush (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 58:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.58.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.58.10/#tree)

בְּטֶ֤רֶם יָבִ֣ינוּ סִּֽירֹתֵיכֶ֣ם אָטָ֑ד כְּמוֹ־חַ֥י כְּמוֹ־חָ֝ר֗וֹן יִשְׂעָרֶֽנּוּ׃

*Word for word:* before they.will.perceive pots your a.thorn.bush like alive like burning he will.sweep.it.away

*JPS 1917:* Before your pots can feel the thorns, He will sweep it away with a whirlwind, the raw and the burning alike.

[Judges 9:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.9.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.9.14/#tree)

וַיֹּאמְר֥וּ כָל־הָעֵצִ֖ים אֶל־הָאָטָ֑ד לֵ֥ךְ אַתָּ֖ה מְלָךְ־עָלֵֽינוּ׃

*Word for word:* and they.said all the trees to the.thorn bush come you reign over us

*JPS 1917:* Then said all the trees unto the bramble: Come thou, and reign over us.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/329.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/329/): 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).