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# בֹּהֶן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H931

**thumb** — used 16 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

thumb [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/931/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בֹּ֫הֶן: thumb great toe [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/931/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[f.\] (cf. Sta§ 310 c) c. יַד thumb, c. רֶגֶל great toe (Arabic إِبْهَامٌ & (vulg.) بَاهِمٌ, بِهَامٌ )—בּ׳ only cstr. Ex 29:20(×2) + 12 times; pl. cstr. בְּהֹנוֹת Ju 1:6, 7 (from sg. \[בְּהוֹן\] as always Cod. Sam. for MT בֹּהֶן);—thumb (יָדָם) בּ׳ יָדוֹ, & great toe (רַגְלָם) בּ׳ רַגְלוֹ (always named together) Ex 29:20(×2) Lv 8:23(×2), 24(×2); 14:14(×2), 17(×2), 25(×2), 28(×2); בְּהֹנוֹת י׳ וְר׳ Ju 1:6, 7.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 of its verses cited, 2 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 big toe (7); the thumb (7); the thumbs (2).

## In the verses

[Judges 1:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.1.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.1.6/#tree)

וַיָּ֙נָס֙ אֲדֹ֣נִי בֶ֔זֶק אֲדֹ֣נִי בֶ֔זֶק וַֽיִּרְדְּפ֖וּ אַחֲרָ֑יו וַיֹּאחֲז֣וּ אֹת֔וֹ וַֽיְקַצְּצ֔וּ אֶת־בְּהֹנ֥וֹת יָדָ֖יו וְרַגְלָֽיו׃

*Word for word:* and he.fled Adoni-Bezek Adoni-Bezek and they.pursued after him and they.seized him and they.cut.off (et) the.thumbs his.hands his and feet his

*JPS 1917:* But Adoni-bezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.

[Leviticus 8:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.8.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.8.23/#tree)

וַיִּשְׁחָ֓ט ׀ וַיִּקַּ֤ח מֹשֶׁה֙ מִדָּמ֔וֹ וַיִּתֵּ֛ן עַל־תְּנ֥וּךְ אֹֽזֶן־אַהֲרֹ֖ן הַיְמָנִ֑ית וְעַל־בֹּ֤הֶן יָדוֹ֙ הַיְמָנִ֔ית וְעַל־בֹּ֥הֶן רַגְל֖וֹ הַיְמָנִֽית׃

*Word for word:* and he.cut.the.throat.of.\[it\] and he.took Moses some of its.blood and he.put.\[it\] on the.lobe of.the.ear of.Aaron (the) right and on the.thumb his.hand his (the) right and on the.big.toe his.foot his (the) right

*JPS 1917:* And when it was slain, Moses took of the blood thereof, and put it upon the tip of Aaron's right ear, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/931.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/931/): 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).