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# אֶתְנַן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H868

**hire** — used 11 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

hire [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/868/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֶתְנַן²: n.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/868/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Ez 16:34 hire of harlot ( = אֶתְנָה);—abs. א׳ Ez 16:34, 41, אֶתְנָ֑ן Ho 9:1 +; cstr. אֶתֽנַן Dt 23:19 +; sf. אֶתְנַנָּהּ Is 23:18, נָּהֿ— v 17; pl. sf. אֶתְנַנֶּיהָ Mi 1:7a (We proposes אֲשֵׁרֶיהָ, cf. Now Marti);—harlot’s hire, Dt 23:19 (א׳ זוֹנָה), elsewhere in fig.: of idolatrous Israel Ho 9:1, Jerus. Ez 16:31, 34(×2), 41, Tyre Is 23:17, 18; of costly idols of Samaria Mi 1:7b, 7c, cf. v 7a (v. supra).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[the\] hire (6); hire (4); hire(s) (1).

## In the verses

[Hosea 9:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.9.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.9.1/#tree)

אַל־תִּשְׂמַ֨ח יִשְׂרָאֵ֤ל ׀ אֶל־גִּיל֙ כָּֽעַמִּ֔ים כִּ֥י זָנִ֖יתָ מֵעַ֣ל אֱלֹהֶ֑יךָ אָהַ֣בְתָּ אֶתְנָ֔ן עַ֖ל כָּל־גָּרְנ֥וֹת דָּגָֽן׃

*Word for word:* do.not rejoice O.Israel to rejoicing like the peoples (dm) you.have.prostituted.yourself from with God your you.have.loved \[the\].hire on all threshing.floors of.grain

*JPS 1917:* Rejoice not, O Israel, unto exultation, like the peoples, for thou hast gone astray from thy God, thou hast loved a harlot's hire upon every corn-floor.

[Deuteronomy 23:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.23.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.23.19/#tree)

לֹא־תָבִיא֩ אֶתְנַ֨ן זוֹנָ֜ה וּמְחִ֣יר כֶּ֗לֶב בֵּ֛ית יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ לְכָל־נֶ֑דֶר כִּ֧י תוֹעֲבַ֛ת יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ גַּם־שְׁנֵיהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* not you.will.bring \[the\].hire of.a.prostitute and.\[the\] price of.a.dog the.house of.Yahweh God your for any vow (dm) \[are\].(the).abomination of.Yahweh God your also both of.them

*JPS 1917:* Thou shalt not bring the hire of a harlot, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow; for even both these are an abomination unto the LORD thy God.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/868.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/868/): 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).