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# הָגָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1898

**remove** — used 3 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

remove [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1898/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

הָגָה²: vb. remove [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1898/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. remove (Thes comp. יגה)— Pf. הָגָה Is 27:8 (Di reads הָגָהּ); Inf. abs. הָגוֹ Pr 25:4, 5;—הָגוֹ סִיגִים מִכָּ֑סֶף Pr 25:4 remove (lit. a removing) dross from silver; as sim. of following הָגוֹ רָשָׁע לִפְנֵי מֶלֶךְ Pr 25:5 remove (the) wicked before a king; הָגָה בְּרוּחוֹ הַקָּשָׁה Is 27:8, according to Di (v. supr.) he (י׳) hath removed her (i.e. sent into exile; his people under fig. of faithless wife) by his harsh wind; so transl. also Ew Che (he scared her away) Brd RV VB; De follows MT, regards as ellipt. rel. cl., and renders by ptcp., ‘sichtend (i.e. sifting, winnowing) heftigen Hauches,’ but conjectures הָגֹה (Inf. abs.)

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 (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: remove (2); he removed (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 25:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.25.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.25.4/#tree)

הָג֣וֹ סִיגִ֣ים מִכָּ֑סֶף וַיֵּצֵ֖א לַצֹּרֵ֣ף כֶּֽלִי׃

*Word for word:* remove dross(es) from silver and it.came.out for the metalsmith a.vessel

*JPS 1917:* Take away the dross from the silver, and there cometh forth a vessel for the refiner;

[Proverbs 25:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.25.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.25.5/#tree)

הָג֣וֹ רָ֭שָׁע לִפְנֵי־מֶ֑לֶךְ וְיִכּ֖וֹן בַּצֶּ֣דֶק כִּסְאֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* remove \[the\].wicked before a.king and it.will.be.established in (the) righteousness throne his

*JPS 1917:* Take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1898.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1898/): 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).