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# חָנֵף

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2611

**profane** — used 13 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

profane [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2611/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חָנֵף²: adj. profane, irreligious [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2611/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. profane, irreligious (Syriac ܚܰܢܦܳܐ profane, hence often heathen, apostate; Arabic حَنِيفٌ inclining to a right state, especially the true religion, a Muslim)—abs. ח׳ Jb 8:13 + 10 times; pl. חֲנֵפִים Is 33:14; חַנְפֵי Jb 36:13 ψ 35:16;—profane, godless: of persons, אָדָם ח׳ Jb 34:30; גּוֹי ח׳ Is 10:6; as subst. godless man Is 9:16 (‖ מרע) Jb 8:13; 13:16; 17:8; 20:5; 27:8; Pr 11:9; coll. עֲדַת ח׳ Jb 15:34; pl. Is 33:14; חַנְפֵי־לֵב Jb 36:13; בְּחַנְפֵי לַעֲגֵי מָעוֹג ψ 35:16 as profane men, mockers for cake (i.e. table-jesters; on cstr. v. Ges§ 130, 5), but text dub. (v. Checrit. n. Bae).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 13 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: godless (3); of \[the\] godless (3); a godless \[person\] (2).

## In the verses

[Job 34:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.34.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.34.30/#tree)

מִ֭מְּלֹךְ אָדָ֥ם חָנֵ֗ף מִמֹּ֥קְשֵׁי עָֽם׃

*Word for word:* from reigning a.person godless from snares of.a.people

*JPS 1917:* That the godless man reign not, that there be none to ensnare the people.

[Job 8:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.8.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.8.13/#tree)

כֵּ֗ן אָ֭רְחוֹת כָּל־שֹׁ֣כְחֵי אֵ֑ל וְתִקְוַ֖ת חָנֵ֣ף תֹּאבֵֽד׃

*Word for word:* \[are\].thus \[the\].paths of.all \[those.who\].forget (of).God and.\[the\] hope of.\[the\].godless it.will.be.lost

*JPS 1917:* So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hope of the godless man shall perish;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2611.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2611/): 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).