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# זָהַם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2092

**be foul** — 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

be foul [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2092/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

זָהַם: vb. be foul, loathsome, Pi. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2092/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. be foul, loathsome, but only Pi., causat. (NH id., be foul, Pi. make foul; Aramaic זְהִים foul, ܙܰܗܶܡ make foul, fetid; Arabic زَهِمَ stink, be greasy)— Pf. 3 fs. sf. 3 ms. וְזִהֲמַתּוּ חַיָּתוֹ לָ֑הֶם (consec.) Jb 33:20 his life maketh it, bread, loathsome to him (‖ ונפשׁו מַאֲכַל תַּאֲוָה). (On sf. v. Ges§ 131, 2, R. 4; Dr 1 S 21:14: according to Siegf the word is hopelessly corrupt.)

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Job 33:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.33.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.33.20/#tree)

וְזִֽהֲמַ֣תּוּ חַיָּת֣וֹ לָ֑חֶם וְ֝נַפְשׁ֗וֹ מַאֲכַ֥ל תַּאֲוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and it loathes.it life his bread and self his food of.desire

*JPS 1917:* So that his life maketh him to abhor bread, and his soul dainty food.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2092.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2092/): 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).