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# חֹרְשָׁה

Biblical Hebrew

**Horesh** — used 4 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

Why these entries: BDB: none; OSHB: none

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Horesh (4).

## In the verses

[1 Samuel 23:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.23.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.23.16/#tree)

וַיָּ֙קָם֙ יְהוֹנָתָ֣ן בֶּן־שָׁא֔וּל וַיֵּ֥לֶךְ אֶל־דָּוִ֖ד חֹ֑רְשָׁה וַיְחַזֵּ֥ק אֶת־יָד֖וֹ בֵּאלֹהִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and he.arose Jonathan the.son of.Saul and he.went to David Horesh and he.strengthened (et) hand his in God

*JPS 1917:* And Jonathan Saul's son arose, and went to David into the wood, and strengthened his hand in God.

[1 Samuel 23:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.23.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.23.15/#tree)

וַיַּ֣רְא דָוִ֔דכִּֽי־יָצָ֥א שָׁא֖וּל לְבַקֵּ֣שׁ אֶת־נַפְשׁ֑וֹ וְדָוִ֥ד בְּמִדְבַּר־זִ֖יף בַּחֹֽרְשָׁה׃ס

*Word for word:* and he.saw David (dm).that he.had.come.forth Saul to seek (et) life his and David \[was\].in the.wilderness of.Ziph at (the) Horesh

*JPS 1917:* And David saw that Saul was come out to seek his life; and David was in the wilderness of Ziph in the wood.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5d7_5b9_5e8_5b0_5e9_5b8_5c1_5d4.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b9_5e8_5b0_5e9_5b8_5c1_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).