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# חוֹב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2326

**debt** — 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

debt [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2326/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חוֹב: debt [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2326/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] debt (NH id.; Aramaic ܚܰܘܒܳܐ, חוֹבָא);—חֲבֹלָתוֹ ח׳ יָשִׁיב Ez 18:7 his pledge as to indebtedness he restores, v. Hi-Sm Ew§ 291 b Ges§ 131 R 5, b KöLgb. i. 497 f. and cf. Dr§ 193 (but constr. hard: Co שׁוֹב; dittogr. from חבל׳ Bev Dn 1:10, cf. v 12, 16).

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: a debt (1).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 18:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.18.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.18.7/#tree)

וְאִישׁ֙ לֹ֣א יוֹנֶ֔ה חֲבֹלָת֥וֹ חוֹב֙ יָשִׁ֔יב גְּזֵלָ֖ה לֹ֣א יִגְזֹ֑ל לַחְמוֹ֙ לְרָעֵ֣ב יִתֵּ֔ן וְעֵירֹ֖ם יְכַסֶּה־בָּֽגֶד׃

*Word for word:* and anyone not he.oppressed pledge his a.debt he.returned robbery not he.robbed food his to.\[the\] hungry he.gave and.\[the\] naked he.covered clothing

*JPS 1917:* and hath not wronged any, but hath restored his pledge for a debt, hath taken nought by robbery, hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2326.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2326/): 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).