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# אֳנִיָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H591

**a ship** — used 31 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

a ship [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/591/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֳנִיָּה: n.f. unit. ship [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/591/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. unit. a ship—abs. Jon 1:3 + 3 times; Pl. abs. אֳנִיּוֹת Dt 28:68 +; אֳונִ֯יּוֹת 2 Ch 8:18; cstr. = abs. 1 K 22:49 +, etc.;—a ship Pr 30:19 Gn 49:13 Dt 28:68 Ju 5:17 (where, however, cf. BuBB Richter u. Sam. p. 16 on text) 1 K 22:49, 50 Is 43:14 2 Ch 8:18; 20:36, 37; Jon 1:4, 5 ψ 104:26; 107:23 Dn 11:40; א׳ הַיָּם Ez 27:9; propelled by oars Ez 27:29; especially א׳ תַּרְשִׁישׁ (cf. אֳנִי) 1 K 22:49 2 Ch 9:21 (cf. 1 K 10:22 supr. sub אֳנִי) ψ 48:8; Is 2:16; 23:1, 14; 60:9; Ez 27:25; late of ship going to Tarshish 2 Ch 9:21; 20:26 Jon 1:3; merchant-ship, א׳ סוֹחֵר Pr 31:14; א׳ אֵבֶ֑ה swift ships Jb 9:26 (cf. אבה); seamen אַנְשֵׁי־אֳנִיּוֹת 1 K 9:27.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 28 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 (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: ships (13); the ships (7); (the) ships (2).

## In the verses

[Psalms 48:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.48.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.48.8/#tree)

בְּר֥וּחַ קָדִ֑ים תְּ֝שַׁבֵּ֗ר אֳנִיּ֥וֹת תַּרְשִֽׁישׁ׃

*Word for word:* with a.wind of.\[the\].east you.shatter (the).ships of.Tarshish

*JPS 1917:* With the east wind Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish.

[Isaiah 23:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.23.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.23.14/#tree)

הֵילִ֖ילוּ אֳנִיּ֣וֹת תַּרְשִׁ֑ישׁ כִּ֥י שֻׁדַּ֖ד מָעֻזְּכֶֽן׃ס

*Word for word:* wail O.ships of.Tarshish (dm) it.has.been.devastated stronghold your

*JPS 1917:* Howl, ye ships of Tarshish, for your stronghold is laid waste.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/591.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/591/): 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).