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# אָסוֹן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H611

**mischief** — used 5 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

mischief [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/611/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אָסוֹן: n.m. mischief, evil, harm [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/611/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. mischief, evil, harm; always abs. without art. Gn 42:4, 38 (as subj. of קרא), 44:29 (קרה), Ex 21:22, 23 (היה).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 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: harm (5).

## In the verses

[Exodus 21:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.21.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.21.23/#tree)

וְאִם־אָס֖וֹן יִהְיֶ֑ה וְנָתַתָּ֥ה נֶ֖פֶשׁ תַּ֥חַת נָֽפֶשׁ׃

*Word for word:* and if harm it.will.be and you.will.give a.life in.place.of a.life

*JPS 1917:* But if any harm follow, then thou shalt give life for life,

[Genesis 42:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.42.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.42.4/#tree)

וְאֶת־בִּנְיָמִין֙ אֲחִ֣י יוֹסֵ֔ף לֹא־שָׁלַ֥ח יַעֲקֹ֖ב אֶת־אֶחָ֑יו כִּ֣י אָמַ֔ר פֶּן־יִקְרָאֶ֖נּוּ אָסֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* and (et) Benjamin the.brother of.Joseph not he.sent Jacob with brothers his (dm) he.said lest it should.happen.to.him harm

*JPS 1917:* But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said: 'Lest peradventure harm befall him.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/611.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/611/): 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).