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# זָרָא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2214

**loathsome thing** — 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

loathsome thing [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2214/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

זָרָא: loathsome thing [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2214/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[f.\] loathsome thing, עַד אֲשֶׁר יֵצֵא מֵאַפְּכֶם וְהָיָה לָכֶם לְזָרָא Nu 11:20 (JE) and it (the flesh) become to you a loathsome thing (𝔊 εἰς χολέραν, 𝔙 in nauseam), prob. err. for זָרָה (Sam.)

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: loathsome thing (1).

## In the verses

[Numbers 11:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.11.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.11.20/#tree)

עַ֣ד ׀ חֹ֣דֶשׁ יָמִ֗ים עַ֤ד אֲשֶׁר־יֵצֵא֙ מֵֽאַפְּכֶ֔ם וְהָיָ֥ה לָכֶ֖ם לְזָרָ֑א יַ֗עַן כִּֽי־מְאַסְתֶּ֤ם אֶת־יְהוָה֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר בְּקִרְבְּכֶ֔ם וַתִּבְכּ֤וּ לְפָנָיו֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר לָ֥מָּה זֶּ֖ה יָצָ֥אנוּ מִמִּצְרָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* until a.month of.days until that it.will.come.out from nose your and it.will.become for you (into).a loathsome.thing because (dm) you.have.rejected (et) Yahweh who \[is\].in midst your and you.have.wept before him (cmp) why? this did.we.come.out from Egypt

*JPS 1917:* but a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome unto you; because that ye have rejected the LORD who is among you, and have troubled Him with weeping, saying: Why, now, came we forth out of Egypt?'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2214.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2214/): 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).