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# הֶגֶה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1899

**a rumbling** — 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

a rumbling [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1899/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

הֶ֫גֶה: n.m. rumbling, growling, moaning [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1899/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Jb 37:2 a rumbling, growling, moaning:—ה׳ abs. Ez 2:10 + 2 times;— a rumbling, growling sound וְה׳ מִפִּיו יֵצֵא Jb 37:2 of thunder, as sound going forth from God’s mouth. a moaning קִינִים וָה׳ וָהִי Ez 2:10 lamentations and moaning and woe. a sigh or moan, as transient, כִּלִּינוּ שָׁנֵינוּ כְמוֹ־הֶ֑גֶה ψ 90:9 we bring our years to an end as a sigh, i.e. a fleeting sound (cf. RVm VB).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 2 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: a sigh (1); moaning (1); rumbling (1).

## In the verses

[Job 37:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.37.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.37.2/#tree)

שִׁמְע֤וּ שָׁמ֣וֹעַ בְּרֹ֣גֶז קֹל֑וֹ וְ֝הֶ֗גֶה מִפִּ֥יו יֵצֵֽא׃

*Word for word:* listen carefully.(listen) to the.rumbling his.voice his and.\[the\] rumbling \[which\].from mouth his it.comes.out

*JPS 1917:* Hear attentively the noise of His voice, and the sound that goeth out of His mouth.

[Psalms 90:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.90.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.90.9/#tree)

כִּ֣י כָל־יָ֭מֵינוּ פָּנ֣וּ בְעֶבְרָתֶ֑ךָ כִּלִּ֖ינוּ שָׁנֵ֣ינוּ כְמוֹ־הֶֽגֶה׃

*Word for word:* (dm) all days our they.turn in fury your we.finish years our like a.sigh

*JPS 1917:* For all our days are passed away in Thy wrath; we bring our years to an end as a tale that is told.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1899.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1899/): 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).