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# חָסוּת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2622

**refuge** — 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

refuge [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2622/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חָסוּת: n.f. refuge [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2622/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. refuge;—וְהֶחָסוּת בְּצֵל מִצְרַיִם Is 30:3 (‖ מָעוֹז פַּרְעֹה).

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

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Isaiah 30:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.30.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.30.3/#tree)

וְהָיָ֥ה לָכֶ֛ם מָע֥וֹז פַּרְעֹ֖ה לְבֹ֑שֶׁת וְהֶחָס֥וּת בְּצֵל־מִצְרַ֖יִם לִכְלִמָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* and it.will.become for you the.refuge of.Pharaoh (into) shame and the refuge in the.shadow of.Egypt (into) ignominy

*JPS 1917:* Therefore shall the stronghold of Pharaoh turn to your shame, and the shelter in the shadow of Egypt to your confusion.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2622.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2622/): 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).