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# זֵעָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2188

**sweat** — 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

sweat [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2188/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

זֵעָה²: n.f. sweat [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2188/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. sweat (NH זִיעָה (Levy), better זֵיעָה (Jastr); Aramaic דֵּיעְתָּא, ܕܽܘܥܬܳܐ )—בְּזֵעַת אַפֶּיךָ תֹּאכַל לֶחֶם Gn 3:19 (J).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 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: the sweat (1).

## In the verses

[Genesis 3:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.3.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.3.19/#tree)

בְּזֵעַ֤ת אַפֶּ֙יךָ֙ תֹּ֣אכַל לֶ֔חֶם עַ֤ד שֽׁוּבְךָ֙ אֶל־הָ֣אֲדָמָ֔ה כִּ֥י מִמֶּ֖נָּה לֻקָּ֑חְתָּ כִּֽי־עָפָ֣ר אַ֔תָּה וְאֶל־עָפָ֖ר תָּשֽׁוּב׃

*Word for word:* by the.sweat your.face your you.will.eat food until return you to the ground (dm) from it you.were.taken (dm) \[are\].dust you and to dust you.will.return

*JPS 1917:* In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken; for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2188.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2188/): 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).