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# אֵיד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H343

**distress** — used 24 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

distress [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/343/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֵיד: n.m. distress, calamity [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/343/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Jb 18:12 distress, calamity (under wh. one bends, cf. Arabic آىِٔدٌ burdening)—א׳ Jb 21:30 +; cstr. id. Jb 31:23 +; אֵידֵי 2 S 22:19 = ψ 18:19 etc.;—distress, calamity (poet. chiefly WisdLt & late); Pr 17:5; 27:10. national calam. of Isr. (apostate) Je 18:17 Ez 35:5 Ob 13(×3); of Egypt Je 46:21; Moab 48:16; Edom (א׳ עֵשָׂו) 49:8; Hazor v 32. of righteous sufferer 2 S 22:19 = ψ 18:19 cf. א׳ אֵל i.e. from God Jb 31:23 & אָרְחוֹת אֵידָם 30:12 their calamitous paths (sf. ref. to bereavement, pain, etc.) often of wicked Jb 18:12; 21:17; 31:3 Pr 1:26, 27 (wisd. mocks at; ‖ פַּחַד) 6:15; 24:22; also יוֹם א׳ Dt 32:35 Jb 21:30 (cf. supr. 2 S 22:19 = ψ 18:19 Pr 27:10 Je 18:17; 46:21 Ob(×3) where ‖ יוֹם אֹבֶד יוֹם צָרָה v 12, 14, cf. יוֹם יהוה v 15). BevJPhil. xxvi. 302 der. from Arabic آدَ be strong \[also oppress, burden\], whence إِيَاد (or أَوَى) calamity.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 22 of its verses cited, 1 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: their disaster (6); calamity (5); disaster (3).

## In the verses

[Job 18:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.18.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.18.12/#tree)

יְהִי־רָעֵ֥ב אֹנ֑וֹ וְ֝אֵ֗יד נָכ֥וֹן לְצַלְעֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* it.is hungry strength his and disaster \[is\].prepared for stumbling his

*JPS 1917:* His trouble shall be ravenous, and calamity shall be ready for his fall.

[Job 21:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.21.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.21.30/#tree)

כִּ֤י לְי֣וֹם אֵ֭יד יֵחָ֣שֶׂךְ רָ֑ע לְי֖וֹם עֲבָר֣וֹת יוּבָֽלוּ׃

*Word for word:* (dm).that to a.day of.calamity he.is.spared an.evil.\[person\] to a.day of.furi(es) they.are.brought.forth

*JPS 1917:* That the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, that they are led forth to the day of wrath?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/343.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/343/): 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).