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# אַט

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H328

**gently** — used 5 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

gently [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/328/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אַט²: subst. gentleness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/328/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** subst. gentleness, used only adverbially:— as adverb. accus. 1 K 21:27 וַיְהַלֵּךְ אַֽט׃ and he (Ahab) went about softly (sc. in penitence); with לְ of norm or state (as in לָבֶטַח, v. לְ) 2 S 18:5 לְאַט־לִי לַנַּעַר (deal) gently for me with the young man, Is 8:6 the waters of Shiloah הַהֹלְכִים לְאַ֑ט that go gently; with pretonic qameṣ Jb 15:11 דָּבָר לָאַט עִמָּֽךְ׃ a word (spoken) gently with thee; with sf. Gn 33:14 אֶתְנַהֲלָה לְאִטִּי I will lead on gently (lit. according to my gentleness). S. p. 532 for לָאט secretly.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: gentleness (4); my (1).

## In the verses

[Job 15:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.15.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.15.11/#tree)

הַמְעַ֣ט מִ֭מְּךָ תַּנְחֻמ֣וֹת אֵ֑ל וְ֝דָבָ֗ר לָאַ֥ט עִמָּֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* \[too\] little? for you \[are\].the.consolations of.God and a.word to gentleness with you

*JPS 1917:* Are the consolations of God too small for thee, and the word that dealeth gently with thee?

[Isaiah 8:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.8.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.8.6/#tree)

יַ֗עַן כִּ֤י מָאַס֙ הָעָ֣ם הַזֶּ֔ה אֵ֚ת מֵ֣י הַשִּׁלֹ֔חַ הַהֹלְכִ֖ים לְאַ֑ט וּמְשׂ֥וֹשׂ אֶת־רְצִ֖ין וּבֶן־רְמַלְיָֽהוּ׃

*Word for word:* because (dm) it.has.rejected the people (the) this (et) the.waters of.(the) Shiloah \[which\] go to gentleness and rejoicing with Rezin and the.son of.Remaliah

*JPS 1917:* Forasmuch as this people hath refused the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoiceth with Rezin and Remaliah's son;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/328.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/328/): 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).