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# זָנַח

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2186

**reject** — used 19 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

reject [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2186/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

זָנַח: vb. reject, spurn Qal [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2186/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. reject, spurn (Arabic زَنَحَ repelled; Assyrian zinû, to be angry not connected)— Pf. ז׳ Ho 8:3, 5 La 2:7; זָנַחְתָּ ψ 44:10 + 2 times; sf. זְנַחְתָּ֑נִי ψ 43:2; וְנַחְתָּנוּ ψ 60:3, 12; 108:12; זְנַחְתִּים Zc 10:6; Impf. יִזְנַח ψ 77:8 La 3:31; תִּזְנַח ψ 44:24 + 2 times;—reject, Isr. rejects good Ho 8:3; Samaria’s calf rejects her Ho 8:5 (others make י׳ subj.; WeKl. Proph. reads אזנח I reject), elsewhere God rejects people ψ 43:2; 60:3; 77:8; 88:15 Zc 10:6; לָנֶצַח ψ 44:24; 74:1; לעולם La 3:31; ז׳ ולא תצא בצבאתינו ψ 44:10; 60:12; 108:12; נַפְשִׁי מִשָּׁלוֹם La 3:17; king ψ 89:39; altar La 2:7. Pf. הִזְנִיחַ 2 Ch 29:19; sf. הִזְנִיחָם 2 Ch 11:14; 3 pl. הֶאֶזְנִיחוּ Is 19:6, v. II. זנח; Impf. יַזְנִיחֲךָ 1 Ch 28:9;—(late) reject (= earlier Qal), Jeroboam rejects the Levites מכהן לי׳ 2 Ch 11:14; Ahaz the sacred vessels 2 Ch 29:19; י׳ rejects Solomon 1 Ch 28:9.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 19 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (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: have (3); he (2); he has rejected (2).

## In the verses

[Hosea 8:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.8.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.8.3/#tree)

זָנַ֥ח יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל ט֑וֹב אוֹיֵ֖ב יִרְדְּֽפוֹ׃

*Word for word:* it.has.rejected Israel good an.enemy he will.pursue.him

*JPS 1917:* Israel hath cast off that which is good; the enemy shall pursue him.

[Lamentations 3:31](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.3.31/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.3.31/#tree)

כִּ֣י לֹ֥א יִזְנַ֛ח לְעוֹלָ֖ם אֲדֹנָֽי׃

*Word for word:* (dm) not he.will.reject forever of.perpetuity Lord \[the\]

*JPS 1917:* For the Lord will not cast off for ever.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2186.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2186/): 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).