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# בָּשְׂמַת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1315

**Bashemath** — used 7 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

Bashemath [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1315/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בָּֽשְׂמַת: n.pr.f. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1315/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.f. (perfume?)— Hittite woman, a wife of Esau Gn 26:34 (P); called daughter of Ishmael, and sister of Nebaioth Gn 36:3 (but due prob. to R; this daughter of Ishmael is מַחֲלַת in 28:9 P); v. also 36:4, 10, 13, 17 (all P) (Sam. has מחלת throughout Gn 36). daughter of Solomon, wife of Ahimaaz 1 K 4:15.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 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: Basemath (4); of Basemath (3).

## In the verses

[Genesis 36:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.36.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.36.3/#tree)

וְאֶת־בָּשְׂמַ֥ת בַּת־יִשְׁמָעֵ֖אל אֲח֥וֹת נְבָיֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* and (et) Basemath the.daughter of.Ishmael the.sister of.Nebaioth

*JPS 1917:* and Basemath Ishmael's daughter, sister of Nebaioth.

[Genesis 36:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.36.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.36.4/#tree)

וַתֵּ֧לֶד עָדָ֛ה לְעֵשָׂ֖ו אֶת־אֱלִיפָ֑ז וּבָ֣שְׂמַ֔ת יָלְדָ֖ה אֶת־רְעוּאֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* and she.bore Adah to Esau (et) Eliphaz and Basemath she.bore (et) Reuel

*JPS 1917:* And Adah bore to Esau Eliphaz; and Basemath bore Reuel;

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1315/): 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).