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# אֶפַע

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H659

**breath** — 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

breath [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/659/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

**The whole BDB entry:** Is 41:24 text error for מֵאָ֑פֶס v. אפס; so 𝔙 𝔗 Saad Thes Ew Di al.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number, only a cross-reference (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 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: something worthless (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 41:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.41.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.41.24/#tree)

הֵן־אַתֶּ֣ם מֵאַ֔יִן וּפָעָלְכֶ֖ם מֵאָ֑פַע תּוֹעֵבָ֖ה יִבְחַ֥ר בָּכֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* here! you \[are\].from nothing and work your \[is\].from something.worthless \[is\].an.abomination \[one.who\].he.chooses (in) you

*JPS 1917:* Behold, ye are nothing, and your work a thing of nought; an abomination is he that chooseth you.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/659.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/659/): 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).