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# בָּבָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H892

**the apple of his eye** — 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

the apple of his eye [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/892/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בָּבָה: n.f. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/892/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. only בָּבַת עֵינוֹ Zc 2:12 the apple of his eye (Aramaic ܒܳܒܬܳܐ ܕܥܰܝܢܳܐ; בָּבָא gate 𝔗 Est 5:14; Thes sub נבב to which Ges gives sense perforate, hence opening of eye; but cf. Arabic بُؤْبُؤْ عين pupil of eye, perhaps = بَنَّةٌ Dozy 49 babe, baby, bébé (imitating infant’s prattle) i.e. child of the eye; v. Hi St, Fl in ChWB i. 419 b; cf. אישׁוֹן?)

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 (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 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: pupil (1).

## In the verses

[Zechariah 2:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.2.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.2.12/#tree)

כִּ֣י כֹ֣ה אָמַר֮ יְהוָ֣ה צְבָאוֹת֒ אַחַ֣ר כָּב֔וֹד שְׁלָחַ֕נִי אֶל־הַגּוֹיִ֖ם הַשֹּׁלְלִ֣ים אֶתְכֶ֑ם כִּ֚י הַנֹּגֵ֣עַ בָּכֶ֔ם נֹגֵ֖עַ בְּבָבַ֥ת עֵינֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* (dm) thus he.says Yahweh of.hosts after honor he has.sent.me to the nations \[which have\].plundered you (dm).that the.\[one who\].touches (in) you \[is\].touching (in).the pupil his.eye his

*JPS 1917:* For thus saith the LORD of hosts who sent me after glory unto the nations which spoiled you: 'Surely, he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/892.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/892/): 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).