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# הֲנָחָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2010

**a giving of rest** — 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

a giving of rest [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/2010/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

הֲנָחָה²: n.f. giving of rest holiday-making Hiph. A;) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/2010/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. a giving of rest, i.e. perhaps holiday-making (cf. jwn Hiph. A;) proposes Inf., Sta§ 621 c BaNB 90, cf. Köii. 1, 402;—וַה׳ לַמְּדִינוֹת עָשָׂה Est 2:18 and a holiday-making for the provinces be enacted, 𝔙 requies; but 𝔊 ἄφεσις, whence al. release from taxes, or amnesty.

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 (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Esther 2:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.2.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.2.18/#tree)

וַיַּ֨עַשׂ הַמֶּ֜לֶךְ מִשְׁתֶּ֣ה גָד֗וֹל לְכָל־שָׂרָיו֙ וַעֲבָדָ֔יו אֵ֖ת מִשְׁתֵּ֣ה אֶסְתֵּ֑ר וַהֲנָחָ֤ה לַמְּדִינוֹת֙ עָשָׂ֔ה וַיִּתֵּ֥ן מַשְׂאֵ֖ת כְּיַ֥ד הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃

*Word for word:* and he.made the king a.feast great for all officials his and servants his (et) the.feast of.Esther and a.holiday for the provinces he.made and he.gave present\[s\] according to.the.hand of the.king

*JPS 1917:* Then the king made a great feast unto all his princes and his servants, even Esther's feast; and he made a release to the provinces, and gave gifts, according to the bounty of the king.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2010.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/2010/): 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).