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# חֶתֶף

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2863

**prey** — 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

prey [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2863/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֶ֫תֶף: prey [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2863/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] prey—only אַף־הִיא כְּחֶ׳ תֶּאֱרֹב Pr 23:28 she also lieth in wait as for prey (said of strange woman).

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 (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Proverbs 23:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.23.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.23.28/#tree)

אַף־הִ֭יא כְּחֶ֣תֶף תֶּֽאֱרֹ֑ב וּ֝בוֹגְדִ֗ים בְּאָדָ֥ם תּוֹסִֽף׃

*Word for word:* also she like a.robber she.lies.in.wait and \[those.who\].act.treacherously among humankind she.increases

*JPS 1917:* She also lieth in wait as a robber, and increaseth the faithless among men.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2863.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2863/): 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).