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# יָהְצָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3096

**Jahaz** — used 9 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

Jahaz [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3096/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יַ֫הַץ: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3096/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. in Moab, site unknown (MI 19, 20 יהץ)—יהץ Is 15:4 Je 48:34; c. ה loc. יָ֑הְצָה, on border of territory of Amorites (under Sihon) Nu 21:23 Dt 2:32; also בְּיָהְ֑צָה Ju 11:20; called יַהֲצָ֫ה Jos 13:18 (assigned to Reuben); יַ֫הְצָה 1 Ch 6:63 (Levit. city in Reuben), Je 48:21.

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, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Jahaz (5); (to) (2); to (2).

## In the verses

[Joshua 13:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.13.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.13.18/#tree)

וְיַ֥הְצָה וּקְדֵמֹ֖ת וּמֵפָֽעַת׃

*Word for word:* and (to) Jahaz and Kedemoth and Mephaath

*JPS 1917:* and Jahaz, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath;

[Deuteronomy 2:32](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.2.32/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.2.32/#tree)

וַיֵּצֵא֩ סִיחֹ֨ן לִקְרָאתֵ֜נוּ ה֧וּא וְכָל־עַמּ֛וֹ לַמִּלְחָמָ֖ה יָֽהְצָה׃

*Word for word:* and he.came.out Sihon to meet us he and all people his for (the) battle to Jahaz

*JPS 1917:* Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, unto battle at Jahaz.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3096.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3096/): 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).