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# בִּאָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H872

**entrance** — 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

entrance [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/872/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בִּאָה²: n.f. entrance, entry [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/872/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. entrance, entry, בַּבִּאָה Ez 8:5, i.e. of temple (but del. B Co).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: entrance (1).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 8:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.8.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.8.5/#tree)

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֵלַ֔י בֶּן־אָדָ֕ם שָׂא־נָ֥א עֵינֶ֖יךָ דֶּ֣רֶךְ צָפ֑וֹנָה וָאֶשָּׂ֤א עֵינַי֙ דֶּ֣רֶךְ צָפ֔וֹנָה וְהִנֵּ֤ה מִצָּפוֹן֙ לְשַׁ֣עַר הַמִּזְבֵּ֔חַ סֵ֛מֶל הַקִּנְאָ֥ה הַזֶּ֖ה בַּבִּאָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.said to me O.son of.humankind lift.up please eyes your \[the\].direction northward and I.lifted.up eyes my \[the\].direction northward and there! from.\[the\] north of the.gate of the.altar the.image of.(the) jealousy (the) this \[was\].in the entrance

*JPS 1917:* Then said He unto me: 'Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the way toward the north.' So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the north, and behold northward of the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/872.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/872/): 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).