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# אִיתוֹן

Biblical Hebrew

**entrance** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

entrance [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b4_5d9_5ea_5d5_5b9_5df/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אִיתוֹן²: n.m. entrance [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b4_5d9_5ea_5d5_5b9_5df/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** Qr, יאתון Kt, n.m. entrance, הָי֯אִתוֹן Ez 40:15; Co reads אתיון; cf. Sm Ol§215 d.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (10 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 40:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.40.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.40.15/#tree)

וְעַ֗ל פְּנֵי֙ הַשַּׁ֣עַר הָֽאִית֔וֹן עַל־לִפְנֵ֕י אֻלָ֥ם הַשַּׁ֖עַר הַפְּנִימִ֑י חֲמִשִּׁ֖ים אַמָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* and on the.face of the.gate the entrance on before the.porch of the.gate (the) inner fifty cubit\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* And from the forefront of the gate of the entrance unto the forefront of the inner porch of the gate were fifty cubits.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b4_5d9_5ea_5d5_5b9_5df/): 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).