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# אַרְנֶבֶת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H768

**hare** — used 2 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

hare [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/768/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אַרְנֶבֶת: n.f. hare [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/768/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. hare (Arabic أَرْنَبٌ, Syriac ܐܰܪܢܶܒܳܐ, Assyrian annabu, as springer?) eating of it forbidden Lv 11:6 (P) Dt 14:7.

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

## In the verses

[Leviticus 11:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.11.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.11.6/#tree)

וְאֶת־הָאַרְנֶ֗בֶת כִּֽי־מַעֲלַ֤ת גֵּרָה֙ הִ֔וא וּפַרְסָ֖ה לֹ֣א הִפְרִ֑יסָה טְמֵאָ֥ה הִ֖וא לָכֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* and (et) the hare (dm) \[is\].bringing.up (of).cud it and a.hoof not it.divides.in.two \[is\].unclean it to you

*JPS 1917:* And the hare, because she cheweth the cud but parteth not the hoof, she is unclean unto you.

[Deuteronomy 14:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.14.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.14.7/#tree)

אַ֣ךְ אֶת־זֶ֞ה לֹ֤א תֹֽאכְלוּ֙ מִמַּֽעֲלֵ֣י הַגֵּרָ֔ה וּמִמַּפְרִיסֵ֥י הַפַּרְסָ֖ה הַשְּׁסוּעָ֑ה אֶֽת־הַ֠גָּמָל וְאֶת־הָאַרְנֶ֨בֶת וְאֶת־הַשָּׁפָ֜ן כִּֽי־מַעֲלֵ֧ה גֵרָ֣ה הֵ֗מָּה וּפַרְסָה֙ לֹ֣א הִפְרִ֔יסוּ טְמֵאִ֥ים הֵ֖ם לָכֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* nevertheless (et) this not you.will.eat of \[those.which\].bring.up (of).the cud and of \[those.which\].divide.in.two (of).the hoof (the) cloven (et) the camel and (et) the hare and (et) the.rock badger (dm) \[is\].bringing.up (of).cud they and a.hoof not they.divide.in.two \[are\].unclean they to you

*JPS 1917:* Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that only chew the cud, or of them that only have the hoof cloven: the camel, and the hare, and the rock-badger, because they chew the cud but part not the hoof, they are unclean unto you;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/768.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/768/): 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).