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# חָדֵל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2310

**forbearing** — used 3 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

forbearing [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2310/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חָדֵל: adj. Qal [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2310/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. forbearing, lacking, הֶחָדֵל as subst. Ez 3:27 he that forbeareth (opp. שׁמע, cf. חָדֵל Qal ad fin.); cstr. חֲדַל אִישִׁים Is 53:3 lacking men (i.e. forsaken by them);—ceasing, transient מֶה־חָדֵל אָ֑נִי ψ 39:5, but read rather חֶלֶד, v. Checrit. n.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 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, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: rejected (1); transient (1); who refrains (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 39:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.39.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.39.5/#tree)

הוֹדִ֘יעֵ֤נִי יְהוָ֨ה ׀ קִצִּ֗י וּמִדַּ֣ת יָמַ֣י מַה־הִ֑יא אֵ֝דְעָ֗ה מֶה־חָדֵ֥ל אָֽנִי׃

*Word for word:* make known.to.me O.Yahweh end my and the.measure my.days my what? \[is\].it let.me.know how! transient \[am\].I

*JPS 1917:* 'LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; let me know how short-lived I am.

[Isaiah 53:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.53.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.53.3/#tree)

נִבְזֶה֙ וַחֲדַ֣ל אִישִׁ֔ים אִ֥ישׁ מַכְאֹב֖וֹת וִיד֣וּעַ חֹ֑לִי וּכְמַסְתֵּ֤ר פָּנִים֙ מִמֶּ֔נּוּ נִבְזֶ֖ה וְלֹ֥א חֲשַׁבְנֻֽהוּ׃

*Word for word:* \[he.was\].despised and rejected of.people a.man of.pains and.\[one\] acquainted of.sickness and like a.hiding of.face from him \[he.was\].despised and not we valued.him

*JPS 1917:* He was despised, and forsaken of men, a man of pains, and acquainted with disease, and as one from whom men hide their face: he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2310.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2310/): 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).