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# דּוּחַ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1740

**rinse** — used 4 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

rinse [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1740/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דּוּחַ: vb. rinse, cleanse away by rinsing, washing [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1740/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. rinse, cleanse away by rinsing, washing (NH Hiph., Aramaic Aph. id.; cf. Assyrian dîḫu DlPr 177)— Pf. sf. הדיחנו Kt Je 51:34 Qr הֱדִיחָ֑נִי but read הִדִּיחני from נדח (Hi, cf. 50:17); Impf. 3 ms. יָדִיחַ Is 4:4; 3 mpl. יָדִיחוּ 2 Ch 4:6 + Ez 40:38 (Co conj. הַקָּדִים);— rinse, victims to be offered in sacrifice Ez 40:38, so 2 Ch 4:6 (cf. supr.) fig. cleanse by washing Is 4:4, of removing guilt.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 2 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 (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: he (1); he will cleanse (1); people rinse (1).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 40:38](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.40.38/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.40.38/#tree)

וְלִשְׁכָּ֣ה וּפִתְחָ֔הּ בְּאֵילִ֖ים הַשְּׁעָרִ֑ים שָׁ֖ם יָדִ֥יחוּ אֶת־הָעֹלָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and a.room and entrance its \[was\].at pillars the gates there people.rinse (et) the.burnt offering

*JPS 1917:* And a chamber with the entry thereof was by the posts at the gates; there was the burnt-offering to be washed.

[Isaiah 4:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.4.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.4.4/#tree)

אִ֣ם ׀ רָחַ֣ץ אֲדֹנָ֗י אֵ֚ת צֹאַ֣ת בְּנוֹת־צִיּ֔וֹן וְאֶת־דְּמֵ֥י יְרוּשָׁלִַ֖ם יָדִ֣יחַ מִקִּרְבָּ֑הּ בְּר֥וּחַ מִשְׁפָּ֖ט וּבְר֥וּחַ בָּעֵֽר׃

*Word for word:* if he.has.washed.away Lord \[the\] (et) the.excrement of.the.daughters of.Zion and (et) the.blood(s) of.Jerusalem he.will.cleanse from midst its by a.spirit of.judgment and by a.spirit of.burning

*JPS 1917:* when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof, by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of destruction.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1740.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1740/): 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).