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# אָמִיר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H534

**top** — used 2 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

top [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/534/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אָמִיר: n.m. top, summit [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/534/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. top, summit, of tree Is 17:6; of mt. v 9 (? so Ew Kn De Di; Lag Che Brd Or foll. 𝔊 & read הָאֱמֹרִי); Pl. cstr. אֲמִרֵי Gn 49:21 (so read for אִמְרֵי, Ew Di al., cf. also i. אֵלָה p. 18).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 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, 1 with the glosses (8 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of \[the\] top (1); top (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 17:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.17.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.17.6/#tree)

וְנִשְׁאַר־בּ֤וֹ עֽוֹלֵלֹת֙ כְּנֹ֣קֶף זַ֔יִת שְׁנַ֧יִם שְׁלֹשָׁ֛ה גַּרְגְּרִ֖ים בְּרֹ֣אשׁ אָמִ֑יר אַרְבָּעָ֣ה חֲמִשָּׁ֗ה בִּסְעִפֶ֙יהָ֙ פֹּֽרִיָּ֔ה נְאֻם־יְהוָ֖ה אֱלֹהֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ס

*Word for word:* and it.will.be.left in it gleanings like.\[the\] beating of.an.olive.tree two three olives at.\[the\] top of.\[the\].top four five on branches its fruit-bearing the.utterance of.Yahweh the.God of.Israel

*JPS 1917:* Yet there shall be left therein gleanings, as at the beating of an olive-tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the branches of the fruitful tree, saith the LORD, the God of Israel.

[Isaiah 17:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.17.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.17.9/#tree)

בַּיּ֨וֹם הַה֜וּא יִהְי֣וּ ׀ עָרֵ֣י מָעֻזּ֗וֹ כַּעֲזוּבַ֤ת הַחֹ֙רֶשׁ֙ וְהָ֣אָמִ֔יר אֲשֶׁ֣ר עָזְב֔וּ מִפְּנֵ֖י בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וְהָיְתָ֖ה שְׁמָמָֽה׃

*Word for word:* in the day (the) that they.will.be the.cities his.refuge his like the.forsaken.\[place\] of the.forest and the top which they.abandoned from before the.people of.Israel and it.will.be a.desolation

*JPS 1917:* In that day shall his strong cities be as the forsaken places, which were forsaken from before the children of Israel, after the manner of woods and lofty forests; and it shall be a desolation.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/534.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/534/): 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).