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# אשׁשׁ

Biblical Hebrew

**be a man** — 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

be a man [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5e9_5c1_5e9_5c1/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אשׁשׁ: Hithpo. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5e9_5c1_5e9_5c1/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** (cf. أَسَّسَ found, establish) Hithpo. וְהִתְאשָׁ֑שׁוּ Is 46:8 (der. from above by 𝔗 Jer Hi Kn De MV, shew yourselves firm, but) read perhaps הִתְבּשָׁ֑שׁוּ Lag Che, from בּוֹשׁ (Thes expl. as denom. from אִישׁ; on other views cf. Di).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Isaiah 46:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.46.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.46.8/#tree)

זִכְרוּ־זֹ֖את וְהִתְאֹשָׁ֑שׁוּ הָשִׁ֥יבוּ פוֹשְׁעִ֖ים עַל־לֵֽב׃

*Word for word:* remember this and pluck.up.courage bring.\[it\].back O.rebels on heart

*JPS 1917:* Remember this, and stand fast; bring it to mind, O ye transgressors.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5d0_5e9_5c1_5e9_5c1.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5e9_5c1_5e9_5c1/): 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).