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# דֵּעַ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1843

**knowledge** — used 5 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

knowledge [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1843/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דֵּעַ²: knowledge, opinion [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1843/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] knowledge, opinion (late)—only sf. דֵּעִי Jb 32:6 + 3 times, and pl. דֵּעִים 37:16; all in speech of Elihu. knowledge, תְּמִים ד׳ Jb 37:16 one perfect in knowledge (of God). judgment, opinion Jb 36:3; חַוֹּת דֵּעִי 32:6 to declare my opinion, so v 10, 17.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: knowledge (4); of knowledge(s) (1).

## In the verses

[Job 37:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.37.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.37.16/#tree)

הֲ֭תֵדַע עַל־מִפְלְשֵׂי־עָ֑ב מִ֝פְלְא֗וֹת תְּמִ֣ים דֵּעִֽים׃

*Word for word:* do you.know? on \[the\].balancing(s) of.\[the\].cloud\[s\] \[the\].wondrous.works of.\[one\].complete of.knowledge(s)

*JPS 1917:* Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of Him who is perfect in knowledge?

[Job 32:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.32.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.32.17/#tree)

אַעֲנֶ֣ה אַף־אֲנִ֣י חֶלְקִ֑י אֲחַוֶּ֖ה דֵעִ֣י אַף־אָֽנִי׃

*Word for word:* I.will.answer also I part my I.will.declare knowledge my also I

*JPS 1917:* I also will answer my part, I also will declare mine opinion.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1843.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1843/): 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).