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# חוה

Biblical Hebrew

**live** — used 170 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

live [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5d5_5d4/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

**The whole BDB entry:** (Ph. חוא live = Heb. חָיָה q.v.)

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (10 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, 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: he bowed down (43); they bowed down (29); bow down (24).

## In the verses

[Genesis 23:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.23.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.23.12/#tree)

וַיִּשְׁתַּ֙חוּ֙ אַבְרָהָ֔ם לִפְנֵ֖י עַ֥ם הָאָֽרֶץ׃

*Word for word:* and he.bowed.down Abraham before the.people of the.land

*JPS 1917:* And Abraham bowed down before the people of the land.

[Genesis 24:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.24.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.24.26/#tree)

וַיִּקֹּ֣ד הָאִ֔ישׁ וַיִּשְׁתַּ֖חוּ לַֽיהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.bowed.low the man and he.bowed.down to Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* And the man bowed his head, and prostrated himself before the LORD.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5d7_5d5_5d4.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5d5_5d4/): 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).