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# אֲנָךְ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H594

**plummet** — used 4 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

plummet [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/594/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֲנָךְ: plummet [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/594/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] plummet (cf. words in cogn. lang. for lead, tin, etym. dub., perhaps foreign; Arabic آنُكٌ (v. Frä153) Syriac ܐܰܢܟܳܐ Mand. אנכא, Assyrian anâku LyonSargontexte 92; v. LagArm. Stud. § 103 cf. Id.BN 175)—אֲנָ֑ךְ except once Am 7:8—plummet Am 7:7, 8(×2); חוֹמַת א׳, i.e. a vertical wall v 7.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: tin (3); of tin (1).

## In the verses

[Amos 7:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.7.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.7.7/#tree)

כֹּ֣ה הִרְאַ֔נִי וְהִנֵּ֧ה אֲדֹנָ֛י נִצָּ֖ב עַל־חוֹמַ֣ת אֲנָ֑ךְ וּבְיָד֖וֹ אֲנָֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* thus he showed.me and there! Lord \[the\] \[was\].standing on a.wall of.tin and.\[was\] in hand his tin

*JPS 1917:* Thus He showed me; and, behold, the Lord stood beside a wall made by a plumbline, with a plumbline in His hand.

[Amos 7:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.7.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.7.8/#tree)

וַיֹּ֨אמֶר יְהוָ֜ה אֵלַ֗י מָֽה־אַתָּ֤ה רֹאֶה֙ עָמ֔וֹס וָאֹמַ֖ר אֲנָ֑ךְ וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֲדֹנָ֗י הִנְנִ֨י שָׂ֤ם אֲנָךְ֙ בְּקֶ֙רֶב֙ עַמִּ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹֽא־אוֹסִ֥יף ע֖וֹד עֲב֥וֹר לֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and he.said Yahweh to me what? \[are\].you seeing O.Amos and I.said tin and he.said Lord \[the\] here I \[am\].about.to.put tin in the.midst my.people my Israel not I.will.repeat again to.pass.by (to) it

*JPS 1917:* And the LORD said unto me: 'Amos, what seest thou?' And I said: 'A plumbline.' Then said the Lord: Behold, I will set a plumbline in the midst of My people Israel; I will not again pardon them any more;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/594.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/594/): 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).