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# אֶשְׁתְּמֹעַ

Biblical Hebrew

**Eshtemoa** — used 5 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

Eshtemoa [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b6_5e9_5b0_5c1_5ea_5b0_5bc_5de_5b9_5e2_5b7/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֶשְׁתְּמוֹעַ: n.pr.loc. n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b6_5e9_5b0_5c1_5ea_5b0_5bc_5de_5b9_5e2_5b7/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** Jos 21:4, אֶשְׁתְּמֹעַ 1 S 30:28 1 Ch 4:17, 19; 6:42. אֶשְׁתְּמֹה Jos 15:50 n.pr.loc. Levitical city in mountain-country of Judah, south of Hebron, mod. Semûʿa v. RobBR i. 464, ii. 204 Survey iii. 403 BdPal. 153; 1 Ch 4:17, 19 it appears as n.pr.m. of a man of Judah. (On the form cf. sub אֶשְׁתָּאוֹל.)

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 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: Eshtemoa (4); of Eshtemoa (1).

## In the verses

[Joshua 21:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.21.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.21.14/#tree)

וְאֶת־יַתִּר֙ וְאֶת־מִגְרָשֶׁ֔הָ וְאֶת־אֶשְׁתְּמֹ֖עַ וְאֶת־מִגְרָשֶֽׁהָ׃

*Word for word:* and (et) Jattir and (et) lands its.pasture and (et) Eshtemoa and (et) lands its.pasture

*JPS 1917:* and Jattir with the open land about it, and Eshtemoa with the open land about it;

[1 Chronicles 4:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.4.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.4.19/#tree)

וּבְנֵי֙ אֵ֣שֶׁת הֽוֹדִיָּ֔ה אֲח֣וֹת נַ֔חַם אֲבִ֥י קְעִילָ֖ה הַגַּרְמִ֑י וְאֶשְׁתְּמֹ֖עַ הַמַּעֲכָתִֽי׃

*Word for word:* and the.sons of.the.wife of.Hodiah the.sister of.Naham \[were\].the.father of.Keilah (the) Garmite and Eshtemoa the Maacathite

*JPS 1917:* And the sons of the wife of Hodiah, the sister of Naham, were the father of Keilah the Garmite, and Eshtemoa the Maacathite.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5d0_5b6_5e9_5b0_5c1_5ea_5b0_5bc_5de_5b9_5e2_5b7.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b6_5e9_5b0_5c1_5ea_5b0_5bc_5de_5b9_5e2_5b7/): 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).