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# אָצִיל

Biblical Hebrew

**side** — 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

side [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b8_5e6_5b4_5d9_5dc/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אָצִיל: side, corner, chief [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b8_5e6_5b4_5d9_5dc/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] side, corner, chief—pl. cstr. אֲצִילֵי Ex 24:11; sf. אֲצִילֶיהָ Is 41:9;— sides (borders) of earth Is 41:9 (‖ קצות); cf. ירכתי א׳ Je 6:22 etc. fig. nobles (perhaps as sides, supports, cf. sub פִּנּוֹת; so Ew Di: but perhaps = أَصِيلٌ noble—from أَصُلَ be rooted, أَصْلٌ root, met. origin, stock—proposes a man having a (known) origin, sprung from an ancient and famous stock; so Ges, cf. LagBN 68) Ex 24:11.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Exodus 24:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.24.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.24.11/#tree)

וְאֶל־אֲצִילֵי֙ בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א שָׁלַ֖ח יָד֑וֹ וַֽיֶּחֱזוּ֙ אֶת־הָ֣אֱלֹהִ֔ים וַיֹּאכְל֖וּ וַיִּשְׁתּֽוּ׃ס

*Word for word:* and against the.nobles of.the.people of.Israel not he.stretched.out hand his and they.saw (et) (the) God and they.ate and they.drank

*JPS 1917:* And upon the nobles of the children of Israel He laid not His hand; and they beheld God, and did eat and drink.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b8_5e6_5b4_5d9_5dc/): 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).