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# יָאָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2969

**befit** — 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

befit [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/2969/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יָאָה: vb. befit, be befitting [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/2969/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. befit, be befitting (NH 𝔗 יָאֵי, יָאֶה adj. worthy, fitting, fine; יָאוּת adv. right, well; Ph. יא fair; Syriac ܝܳܐܷܐ adj. for נאוה ψ 33:1, πρέπει Mt 3:15)— Pf. לְךָ יָאָ֑תָה Je 10:7, for thee it (i.e. fear) is befitting, late Aramaism.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (13 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (9 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 10:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.10.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.10.7/#tree)

מִ֣י לֹ֤א יִֽרָאֲךָ֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ הַגּוֹיִ֔ם כִּ֥י לְךָ֖ יָאָ֑תָה כִּ֣י בְכָל־חַכְמֵ֧י הַגּוֹיִ֛ם וּבְכָל־מַלְכוּתָ֖ם מֵאֵ֥ין כָּמֽוֹךָ׃

*Word for word:* who? not will he.fear.you O.king of the.nations (dm) for you it.is.befitting (dm) among all the.wise.\[people\] of the.nations and among all kingdom their from there.\[is\].not like you

*JPS 1917:* Who would not fear Thee, O king of the nations? For it befitteth Thee; forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their royalty, there is none like unto Thee.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2969.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/2969/): 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).