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# זָנַח

Biblical Hebrew

**stink** — 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

stink [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/lemma_3a_5d6_5b8_5e0_5b7_5d7/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

זָנַח²: stink, emit stench Hiph. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/lemma_3a_5d6_5b8_5e0_5b7_5d7/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** stink, emit stench (cf. Arabic زَنَخَ become rancid, of oil, etc., Lane);—only Hiph. Pf. 3 mpl. הֶאֶזְנִיחוּ נְהָרוֹת rivers stink Is 19:6 (read הִזְנִיחוּ Ges§ 53, 6 Ol§ 255 b Sta§ 420 a Köi 293; but Ew§ 126 b De Di derive from elative אַזְנָח or אֶזְנָח).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (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: they will stink (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 19:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.19.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.19.6/#tree)

וְהֶאֶזְנִ֣יחוּ נְהָר֔וֹת דָּלֲל֥וּ וְחָרְב֖וּ יְאֹרֵ֣י מָצ֑וֹר קָנֶ֥ה וָס֖וּף קָמֵֽלוּ׃

*Word for word:* and they.will.stink \[the\].rivers they.will.be.low and they.will.become.dry the.canals of.Egypt reed\[s\] and rush\[es\] they.will.wither

*JPS 1917:* And the rivers shall become foul; the streams of Egypt shall be minished and dried up; the reeds and flags shall wither.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5d6_5b8_5e0_5b7_5d7.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/lemma_3a_5d6_5b8_5e0_5b7_5d7/): 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).