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# הֶמְיָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1998

**sound** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

sound [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1998/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

הֶמְיָה: n.f. sound, music [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1998/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. sound, music, of instruments הֶמְיַת נְבָלֶ֑יךָ Is 14:11.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: the sound (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 14:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.14.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.14.11/#tree)

הוּרַ֥ד שְׁא֛וֹל גְּאוֹנֶ֖ךָ הֶמְיַ֣ת נְבָלֶ֑יךָ תַּחְתֶּ֙יךָ֙ יֻצַּ֣ע רִמָּ֔ה וּמְכַסֶּ֖יךָ תּוֹלֵעָֽה׃

*Word for word:* it.has.been.brought.down Sheol pride your the.sound your.lyres your under you it.is.spread.as.a.bed maggot\[s\] and coverings your \[are\].worm\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* Thy pomp is brought down to the nether-world, and the noise of thy psalteries; the maggot is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1998.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1998/): 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).