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# יָבַב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2980

**cry shrilly** — 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

cry shrilly [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/2980/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יָבַב: vb. Pi. cry shrilly [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/2980/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. only Pi. cry shrilly (NH Pi. lament; Aramaic ܝܰܒܶܒ, יַבֵּב sound clarions, exult; Ethiopic የበበ especially I. 2)— Impf. 3 fs. וַתְּיַבֵּב Ju 5:28 through the windows she looked and shrilly cried.

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 (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Judges 5:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.5.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.5.28/#tree)

בְּעַד֩ הַחַלּ֨וֹן נִשְׁקְפָ֧ה וַתְּיַבֵּ֛ב אֵ֥ם סִֽיסְרָ֖א בְּעַ֣ד הָֽאֶשְׁנָ֑ב מַדּ֗וּעַ בֹּשֵׁ֤שׁ רִכְבּוֹ֙ לָב֔וֹא מַדּ֣וּעַ אֶֽחֱר֔וּ פַּעֲמֵ֖י מַרְכְּבוֹתָֽיו׃

*Word for word:* through the window she.looked.down and she.lamented the.mother of.Sisera through the window-lattice why? has.it.delayed chariot his to come why? have.they.delayed the.hoof-beats his.chariots his

*JPS 1917:* Through the window she looked forth, and peered, the mother of Sisera, through the lattice: 'Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why tarry the wheels of his chariots?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2980.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/2980/): 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).