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# חֵרֵשׁ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2795

**deaf** — used 9 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

deaf [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2795/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֵרֵשׁ: adj. deaf [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2795/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. deaf—חֵרֵשׁ (= חִרֵּשׁ) Ex 4:11 + 4 times; pl. חֵרְשִׁים Is 29:18 + 3 times;—deaf, Ex 4:11 (J; ‖ אִלֵּם), ψ 38:14 (‖ id.); also Lv 19:14 (H), Is 29:18; 35:5; 42:18, 19 + v 19 b (for last עִוֵּר, cf. 43:8; GrJQ 1891, Oct. p. 2 v. CheComm., JQ Jan. 1892, 332), 43:8; פֶּ֫תֶן ח׳ ψ 58:5 a deaf adder.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (14 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (12 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: deaf (3); a deaf \[person\] (2); deaf \[people\] (2).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 35:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.35.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.35.5/#tree)

אָ֥ז תִּפָּקַ֖חְנָה עֵינֵ֣י עִוְרִ֑ים וְאָזְנֵ֥י חֵרְשִׁ֖ים תִּפָּתַֽחְנָה׃

*Word for word:* then they.will.be.opened \[the\].eyes of.blind.\[people\] and.\[the\] ears of.deaf.\[people\] they.will.be.unstopped

*JPS 1917:* Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.

[Isaiah 42:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.42.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.42.18/#tree)

הַחֵרְשִׁ֖ים שְׁמָ֑עוּ וְהַעִוְרִ֖ים הַבִּ֥יטוּ לִרְאֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* O deaf.\[people\] listen and O blind.\[people\] look to see

*JPS 1917:* Hear, ye deaf, and look, ye blind, that ye may see.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2795.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2795/): 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).