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# אֶשֶׁד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H793

**foundation** — 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

foundation [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/793/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֶ֫שֶׁד: foundation, bottom, lower part [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/793/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] foundation, bottom, lower part (slope) (Assyrian išdu cf. LotzTP 186; \> others from אֲשַׁד, ܝܫܕ pour, Sab. אסד = מסקי (משׁקה) DHMZMG 1883, 8, whence fall, slope; cf. Di Nu 21:15) א׳ הַנְּחָלִים the bottom of the ravines Nu 21:15.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 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, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Numbers 21:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.21.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.21.15/#tree)

וְאֶ֙שֶׁד֙ הַנְּחָלִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר נָטָ֖ה לְשֶׁ֣בֶת עָ֑ר וְנִשְׁעַ֖ן לִגְב֥וּל מוֹאָֽב׃

*Word for word:* and the.slope of the.wadis which it.extends to the.dwelling of.Ar and it.leans to the.border of.Moab

*JPS 1917:* And the slope of the valleys that inclineth toward the seat of Ar, and leaneth upon the border of Moab. —

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/793.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/793/): 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).