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# גּוּמָּץ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1475

**pit** — 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

pit [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1475/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גּוּמָּץ: n.m. pit [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1475/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. pit (Aramaic loan-wd., cf. גּוּמְצָא, ܓܽܘܡܳܨܳܐ; NH גּוּמָּצָא cf. BaNB 66, Anm. 1), Ec 10:8 חֹפֵר ג׳ בּוֹ יִפּ֑וֹל he that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; so also Pr 26:27 𝔗 𝔖 where ℌ כֹּרֶה שַׁחַת.

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: a pit (1).

## In the verses

[Ecclesiastes 10:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.10.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.10.8/#tree)

חֹפֵ֥ר גּוּמָּ֖ץ בּ֣וֹ יִפּ֑וֹל וּפֹרֵ֥ץ גָּדֵ֖ר יִשְּׁכֶ֥נּוּ נָחָֽשׁ׃

*Word for word:* \[one.who\].digs a.pit in it he.will.fall and \[one.who\].breaks.through a.wall it will.bite.him a.snake

*JPS 1917:* He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh through a fence, a serpent shall bite him.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1475.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1475/): 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).