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# חָנוּת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2588

**cell** — 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

cell [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2588/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חָנוּת: n.f. cell [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2588/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. cell (as having curved or vauled roof, arched; v. Thes Gf, and cf. Aramaic ܚܳܢܘܽܬܳܐ vaulted room)—הַחֲנֻיּוֹת Je 37:16 (‖ בֵּית הַבּוֹר).

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 (3 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: cells (1).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 37:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.37.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.37.16/#tree)

כִּ֣י בָ֧א יִרְמְיָ֛הוּ אֶל־בֵּ֥ית הַבּ֖וֹר וְאֶל־הַֽחֲנֻ֑יוֹת וַיֵּֽשֶׁב־שָׁ֥ם יִרְמְיָ֖הוּ יָמִ֥ים רַבִּֽים׃פ

*Word for word:* (dm) he.went Jeremiah into the.house of the.cistern and into the cells and he.remained there Jeremiah days many

*JPS 1917:* When Jeremiah was come into the dungeon-house, and into the cells, and Jeremiah had remained there many days;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2588.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2588/): 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).