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# זֹה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2090

**this** — used 11 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

this [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2090/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

**The whole BDB entry:** this (f.) = זֹאת (cf. זוֹ, in Mish. the regular fem. of זֶה)—2 K 6:19 Ez 40:45 Ec 2:2, 24; 5:15, 18; 7:23; 9:13 (זאת does not occur in Ec); also in the phr. כָּזֹה וְכָזֶה (v. זה 6 c β).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 8 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: this (11).

## In the verses

[Ecclesiastes 2:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.2.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.2.2/#tree)

לִשְׂח֖וֹק אָמַ֣רְתִּי מְהוֹלָ֑ל וּלְשִׂמְחָ֖ה מַה־זֹּ֥ה עֹשָֽׂה׃

*Word for word:* of laughter I.said \[it.is\].mad and of pleasure what? this \[is.it\].doing

*JPS 1917:* I said of laughter: 'It is mad'; and of mirth: 'What doth it accomplish?'

[Ecclesiastes 9:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.9.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.9.13/#tree)

גַּם־זֹ֛ה רָאִ֥יתִי חָכְמָ֖ה תַּ֣חַת הַשָּׁ֑מֶשׁ וּגְדוֹלָ֥ה הִ֖יא אֵלָֽי׃

*Word for word:* also this I.have.seen wisdom under the sun and.\[was\] great it to me

*JPS 1917:* This also have I seen as wisdom under the sun, and it seemed great unto me:

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2090.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2090/): 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).