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# חָוָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2331

**tell** — used 6 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

tell [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2331/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חָוָה: vb. Pi. tell, declare [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2331/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. only Pi. (poet. & late), tell, declare (Aramaic ܚܰܘܺܝ, חַוֵּי)— Impf. 3 ms. יְחַוֶּה־ ψ 19:3; 1 s. אֲחַוֶּה Jb 32:10, 17; sf. אֲחַוְךָ Jb 15:17, אֲחַוֶּךָּ Jb 36:2; Inf. cstr. חַוֹּת;—declare, make known, c. acc. דָּ֑עַת ψ 19:3 (subj. לַיְלָה, sq. לְלַיְלָה; ‖ יַבִּיעַ אֹמֶר); c. acc. דֵּעִי Jb 32:10, 17; c. 2 acc. וָאִירָא מֵחַוֹּת דֵּעִי אֶתְכֶם 32:6, sq. sf. pers. + obj. cl., וַאֲחַוֶּ֑ךָּ כִּי־עוֹד לֶאֱלוֹהַּ מִלִּֽים׃ 36:2 and I will shew thee that (there are) yet words for God; sq. sf. pers. only Jb 15:17;—read prob. also וַאֲחַוֶּה for וַאֲקַוֶּה ψ 52:11 Hi Che al.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (10 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (8 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: I will declare (2); I (1); declaring (1).

## In the verses

[Job 15:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.15.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.15.17/#tree)

אֲחַוְךָ֥ שְֽׁמַֽע־לִ֑י וְזֶֽה־חָ֝זִ֗יתִי וַאֲסַפֵּֽרָה׃

*Word for word:* I will.inform.you listen to me and what I.have.seen and I.will.recount

*JPS 1917:* I will tell thee, hear thou me; and that which I have seen I will declare —

[Job 32:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.32.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.32.17/#tree)

אַעֲנֶ֣ה אַף־אֲנִ֣י חֶלְקִ֑י אֲחַוֶּ֖ה דֵעִ֣י אַף־אָֽנִי׃

*Word for word:* I.will.answer also I part my I.will.declare knowledge my also I

*JPS 1917:* I also will answer my part, I also will declare mine opinion.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2331.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2331/): 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).