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# טֵאטֵא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2894

**and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction** — 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

and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2894/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

טֵאטֵא: vb. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2894/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. , only Pf. 1 s. sf. וִטֵאטֵאתִיהָ בְּמַטְאֲטֵא הַשְׁמֵד Is 14:23 and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, of י׳’s laying Babylon waste. (Form of √ dub.; ע״ו Ol§ 253; ע״ע Sta§ 464; undecided Köi 652 ff. (q.v.), cf. Ew§ 121 b.)

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 (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Isaiah 14:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.14.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.14.23/#tree)

וְשַׂמְתִּ֛יהָ לְמוֹרַ֥שׁ קִפֹּ֖ד וְאַגְמֵי־מָ֑יִם וְטֵֽאטֵאתִ֙יהָ֙ בְּמַטְאֲטֵ֣א הַשְׁמֵ֔ד נְאֻ֖ם יְהוָ֥ה צְבָאֽוֹת׃פ

*Word for word:* and I will.make.it (into).a possession of.hedgehog\[s\] and pools of.water and I will.sweep.it.away with a.broom of.destruction the.utterance of.Yahweh of.hosts

*JPS 1917:* I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water; and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the LORD of hosts.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2894.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2894/): 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).