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# דְּחִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1762

**stumbling** — used 2 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

stumbling [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1762/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דְּחִי: stumbling [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1762/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] stumbling הִצַּלְתָּ … רַגְלַי מִדֶּ֑חי ψ 56:14 = 116:8.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 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 (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: stumbling (2).

## In the verses

[Psalms 116:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.116.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.116.8/#tree)

כִּ֤י חִלַּ֥צְתָּ נַפְשִׁ֗י מִ֫מָּ֥וֶת אֶת־עֵינִ֥י מִן־דִּמְעָ֑ה אֶת־רַגְלִ֥י מִדֶּֽחִי׃

*Word for word:* (dm) you.have.rescued life my from death (et) eye my from tear\[s\] (et) foot my from stumbling

*JPS 1917:* For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from stumbling.

[Psalms 56:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.56.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.56.14/#tree)

כִּ֤י הִצַּ֪לְתָּ נַפְשִׁ֡י מִמָּוֶת֮ הֲלֹ֥א רַגְלַ֗י מִ֫דֶּ֥חִי לְ֭הִֽתְהַלֵּךְ לִפְנֵ֣י אֱלֹהִ֑ים בְּ֝א֗וֹר הַֽחַיִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* (dm) you.have.delivered life my from death ? not feet my from stumbling to go.about before God in the.light of.(the) life

*JPS 1917:* For thou hast delivered my soul from death; hast Thou not delivered my feet from stumbling? that I may walk before God in the light of the living.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1762.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1762/): 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).