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# זֻלֻּת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2149

**worthlessness** — 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

worthlessness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2149/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

זֻלֻּת: n.f. worthlessness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2149/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. worthlessness, only כְּרֻם זֻלֻּת לִבְנֵי אָדָם \[van d. H. זֻלּוּת\] ψ 12:9 cf. De & Checrit. n.

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 (1 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 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: vileness (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 12:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.12.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.12.9/#tree)

סָבִ֗יב רְשָׁעִ֥ים יִתְהַלָּכ֑וּן כְּרֻ֥ם זֻ֝לּ֗וּת לִבְנֵ֥י אָדָֽם׃

*Word for word:* all.around wicked.\[people\] they walk.about just as.is.exalted vileness by.\[the\] children of.humankind

*JPS 1917:* The wicked walk on every side, when vileness is exalted among the sons of men.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2149.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2149/): 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).