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# אִיּוֹב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H347

**Job** — used 58 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

Job [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/347/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אִיּוֹב: n.pr.m. Job [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/347/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. Job (meaning unknown; Thes √ איב; obj. of enmity, cf. for pass. sense יִלּוֹד; Ew comp. Ara. أَوَّابٌ he who turns (to God); but cf. Di on 1:1; all dub. cf. LagBN 90) Jb 1:1, 5(×3), 8, 9, 14 + 48 textual Jb; Ez 14:14, 20.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 1 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 (10 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Job (48); of Job (6); O Job (3).

## In the verses

[Job 3:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.3.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.3.2/#tree)

וַיַּ֥עַן אִיּ֗וֹב וַיֹּאמַֽר׃

*Word for word:* and he.answered Job and he.said

*JPS 1917:* And Job spoke, and said:

[Job 6:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.6.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.6.1/#tree)

וַיַּ֥עַן אִיּ֗וֹב וַיֹּאמַֽר׃

*Word for word:* and he.answered Job and he.said

*JPS 1917:* Then Job answered and said:

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/347.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/347/): 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).