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# זָרַר

Biblical Hebrew

**sneeze** — 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

sneeze [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/lemma_3a_5d6_5b8_5e8_5b7_5e8/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

זָרַר: vb. sneeze [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/lemma_3a_5d6_5b8_5e8_5b7_5e8/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. only sneeze (cf. זְרִירוֹ(ה)י 𝔗 Jb 41:10 for Heb. עֲטִישֹׁתָיו; vb. prob. onomatop.);—וַיְזוֹרֵר הַנַּעַר עד שׁבע פעמים 2 K 4:35. וַיְזוֹרֵר 2 K 4:35 om. 𝔊 Gr Bur think MT arose (by dittogr.) from וַיִּגְהַר עַל־הַנַּעַר.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, 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: he sneezed (1).

## In the verses

[2 Kings 4:35](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.4.35/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.4.35/#tree)

וַיָּ֜שָׁב וַיֵּ֣לֶךְ בַּבַּ֗יִת אַחַ֥ת הֵ֙נָּה֙ וְאַחַ֣ת הֵ֔נָּה וַיַּ֖עַל וַיִּגְהַ֣ר עָלָ֑יו וַיְזוֹרֵ֤ר הַנַּ֙עַר֙ עַד־שֶׁ֣בַע פְּעָמִ֔ים וַיִּפְקַ֥ח הַנַּ֖עַר אֶת־עֵינָֽיו׃

*Word for word:* and he.went.back and he.walked in the house one.\[time\] hither and one.\[time\] hither and he.went.up and he.bent.down over him and he.sneezed the lad until seven times and he.opened the lad (et) eyes his

*JPS 1917:* Then he returned, and walked in the house once to and fro; and went up, and stretched himself upon him; and the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5d6_5b8_5e8_5b7_5e8.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/lemma_3a_5d6_5b8_5e8_5b7_5e8/): 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).