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# חוּב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2325

**be guilty** — 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

be guilty [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2325/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חוּב: vb. be guilty [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2325/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. be guilty (NH id., be under obligation, guilty; Aramaic ܚܳܒ, חוּב, be defeated, quilty; Arabic خَابَ be disappointed, fail;—Arabic حُوبٌ, حَوْبٌ sin, is loan-wd. according to Bev Dn 1:10);— not in MT; but read perhaps חַבְתִּי (for סַבֹּתִי) 1 S 22:22 I am guilty, so 𝔖 Th We Dr. Pf. inculpate וְחִיַּבְתֶּם את־רֹאשִׁי לַמֶּ֑לֶךְ consec. Dn 1:10 and inculpate my head with the king.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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 (3 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Daniel 1:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.1.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.1.10/#tree)

וַיֹּ֜אמֶר שַׂ֤ר הַסָּרִיסִים֙ לְדָ֣נִיֵּ֔אל יָרֵ֤א אֲנִי֙ אֶת־אֲדֹנִ֣י הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ אֲשֶׁ֣ר מִנָּ֔ה אֶת־מַאֲכַלְכֶ֖ם וְאֶת־מִשְׁתֵּיכֶ֑ם אֲשֶׁ֡ר לָמָּה֩ יִרְאֶ֨ה אֶת־פְּנֵיכֶ֜ם זֹֽעֲפִ֗ים מִן־הַיְלָדִים֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר כְּגִֽילְכֶ֔ם וְחִיַּבְתֶּ֥ם אֶת־רֹאשִׁ֖י לַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃

*Word for word:* and he.said the.chief of the.officials to Daniel \[am\].fearing I (et) master my the king who he.has.assigned (et) food your and (et) drink your that why? will.he.see (et) faces your looking.thin more.than the youths who \[are\].about age your and you.will.endanger (et) head my to the king

*JPS 1917:* And the chief of the officers said unto Daniel: 'I fear my lord the king, who hath appointed your food and your drink; for why should he see your faces sad in comparison with the youths that are of your own age? so would ye endanger my head with the king.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2325.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2325/): 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).