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# טָוָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2901

**spin** — used 2 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

spin [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2901/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

טָוָה: vb. spin [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2901/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. spin (NH id.; Aramaic מַטְוַוְיְתָא spider Jb 8:14 𝔗 (but Syriac ܛܘܳܐ = roast, broil, v. DrJPh. xi, 1882, 207); Assyrian ṭamû (ṭawû), spin, HptZA 1887, 274 DlHWB 302; Arabic طَوَى fold, wind; Ethiopic ጠወየ be twisted)— Pf. 3 pl. טָווּ work of women of Isr. Ex 35:25 abs., v 26 sq. acc. אֶת־הָעִזִּים goats, i.e. goats’ hair (P).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 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: they spun (2).

## In the verses

[Exodus 35:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.35.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.35.26/#tree)

וְכָל־הַ֨נָּשִׁ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֨ר נָשָׂ֥א לִבָּ֛ן אֹתָ֖נָה בְּחָכְמָ֑ה טָו֖וּ אֶת־הָעִזִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* and all the women whom it.lifted heart their them with skill they.spun (et) the.goat hair(s)

*JPS 1917:* And all the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun the goats' hair.

[Exodus 35:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.35.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.35.25/#tree)

וְכָל־אִשָּׁ֥ה חַכְמַת־לֵ֖ב בְּיָדֶ֣יהָ טָו֑וּ וַיָּבִ֣יאוּ מַטְוֶ֗ה אֶֽת־הַתְּכֵ֙לֶת֙ וְאֶת־הָֽאַרְגָּמָ֔ן אֶת־תּוֹלַ֥עַת הַשָּׁנִ֖י וְאֶת־הַשֵּֽׁשׁ׃

*Word for word:* and every woman skillful of.heart with hands her they.spun and they.brought that.which.was.spun (et) the.violet stuff and (et) the purple (et) the.scarlet.stuff of the.scarlet and (et) the.fine linen

*JPS 1917:* And all the women that were wise-hearted did spin with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, the blue, and the purple, the scarlet, and the fine linen.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2901.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2901/): 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).