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# טְחֹרִים

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2914

**tumours** — used 8 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

tumours [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2914/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

טְחוֹר: n.m. tumours [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2914/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. 1 S 6:4 only pl. tumours, result of dysentery (v. Aramaic √) (so Aramaic טְחוֹרַיָּא, ܛܚܽܘܪܳܐ )—chiefly Qr for Kt עפלים, עפלֵי, hemorrhoids: viz. טְחֹרִים Dt 28:27 1 S 5:6, 9, 12; טְחֹרֵי זָהָב 6:4; צַלְמֵי טְחֹרֵיכֶם 6:5; twice it has found its way into the Kt טְחֹרֵי הַזָּהָב 6:17, צַלְמֵי טְחֹרֵיהֶם 6:11; WeSam. 27 n., cf. GeiUrschrift 408 f.

Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: tumors (5); \[are\] the tumors (1); their tumors (1).

## In the verses

[1 Samuel 5:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.5.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.5.12/#tree)

וְהָֽאֲנָשִׁים֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר לֹא־מֵ֔תוּ הֻכּ֖וּ בַּטְּחֹרִ֑יםוַתַּ֛עַל שַֽׁוְעַ֥ת הָעִ֖יר הַשָּׁמָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* and the men who not they.died they.were.struck with the tumors and it.went.up the.cry.for.help of the.city the heavens

*JPS 1917:* And the men that died not were smitten with the emerods; and the cry of the city went up to heaven.

[1 Samuel 6:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.6.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.6.11/#tree)

וַיָּשִׂ֛מוּ אֶת־אֲר֥וֹן יְהוָ֖ה אֶל־הָעֲגָלָ֑ה וְאֵ֣ת הָאַרְגַּ֗ז וְאֵת֙ עַכְבְּרֵ֣י הַזָּהָ֔ב וְאֵ֖ת צַלְמֵ֥י טְחֹרֵיהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* and they.put (et) the.ark of.Yahweh into the cart and (et) the box and (et) the.mice of.(the) gold and (et) the.images their.tumors their

*JPS 1917:* And they put the ark of the LORD upon the cart, and the coffer with the mice of gold and the images of their emerods.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2914/): 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).