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# טָעַן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2944

**pierce** — 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

pierce [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2944/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

טָעַן²: vb. pierce [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2944/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. pierce (Aramaic Pa. טָעֵן pierce; Arabic طَعَنَ pierce, wound, goad)—only Pt. מְטֹעֲנֵי חָ֑רֶב Is 14:19 those pierced with a sword.

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: \[those who were\] pierced (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 14:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.14.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.14.19/#tree)

וְאַתָּ֞ה הָשְׁלַ֤כְתָּ מִֽקִּבְרְךָ֙ כְּנֵ֣צֶר נִתְעָ֔ב לְב֥וּשׁ הֲרֻגִ֖ים מְטֹ֣עֲנֵי חָ֑רֶב יוֹרְדֵ֥י אֶל־אַבְנֵי־ב֖וֹר כְּפֶ֥גֶר מוּבָֽס׃

*Word for word:* and you you.have.been.thrown.out from tomb your like a.shoot abhorred \[the\].clothing of.\[those.who.were\].killed \[those.who.were\].pierced of.\[the\].sword \[those.who\].go.down to \[the\].stones of.\[the\].pit like a.corpse trodden.down

*JPS 1917:* But thou art cast forth away from thy grave like an abhorred offshoot, in the raiment of the slain, that are thrust through with the sword, that go down to the pavement of the pit, as a carcass trodden under foot.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2944.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2944/): 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).