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# אֶפְרֹחַ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H667

**young one** — 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

young one [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/667/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֶפְרֹחַ²: n.m. young one young ones, young [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/667/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Jb 39:30 young one, pl. young ones, young, of birds (Ethiopic አፍርኅት; id.);—אֶפְרֹחִים Dt 22:6(×2); sf. אֶפְרֹחָו Jb 39:30, אֶפְרֹחֶיהָ ψ 84:4.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: ones (2); its young (1); young ones (1).

## In the verses

[Job 39:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.39.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.39.30/#tree)

וְאֶפְרֹחָ֥יו יְעַלְעוּ־דָ֑ם וּבַאֲשֶׁ֥ר חֲ֝לָלִ֗ים שָׁ֣ם הֽוּא׃פ

*Word for word:* and its.young ones they.drink blood and at where \[those\].slain.\[are\] \[is\].there it

*JPS 1917:* Her young ones also suck up blood; and where the slain are, there is she.

[Psalms 84:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.84.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.84.4/#tree)

גַּם־צִפּ֨וֹר ׀ מָ֪צְאָה בַ֡יִת וּדְר֤וֹר ׀ קֵ֥ן לָהּ֮ אֲשֶׁר־שָׁ֪תָה אֶפְרֹ֫חֶ֥יהָ אֶֽת־מִ֭זְבְּחוֹתֶיךָ יְהוָ֣ה צְבָא֑וֹת מַ֝לְכִּ֗י וֵאלֹהָֽי׃

*Word for word:* also a.bird it.has.found a.home and a.swallow a.nest for itself which it.has.put ones its.young with altars your O.Yahweh of.hosts king my and God my

*JPS 1917:* Yea, the sparrow hath found a house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young; Thine altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God — .

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/667.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/667/): 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).