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# יָוֵן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3121

**mire** — used 2 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

mire [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3121/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יָוֵן: mire [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3121/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] mire;—abs. מִטִּיט הַיָּוֵן ψ 40:3; cstr. טָבַעְתִּי בִיוֵן מְצוּלָה 69:3.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Psalms 69:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.69.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.69.3/#tree)

טָבַ֤עְתִּי ׀ בִּיוֵ֣ן מְ֭צוּלָה וְאֵ֣ין מָעֳמָ֑ד בָּ֥אתִי בְמַעֲמַקֵּי־מַ֝֗יִם וְשִׁבֹּ֥לֶת שְׁטָפָֽתְנִי׃

*Word for word:* I.have.sunk in mire of.depth and there.\[is\].not a.foothold I.have.come in depths of.water and a.flood it has.overflowed.me

*JPS 1917:* I am sunk in deep mire, where there is no standing; I am come into deep waters, and the flood overwhelmeth me.

[Psalms 40:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.40.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.40.3/#tree)

וַיַּעֲלֵ֤נִי ׀ מִבּ֥וֹר שָׁאוֹן֮ מִטִּ֪יט הַיָּ֫וֵ֥ן וַיָּ֖קֶם עַל־סֶ֥לַע רַגְלַ֗י כּוֹנֵ֥ן אֲשֻׁרָֽי׃

*Word for word:* and he brought.me.up from a.pit of.roaring from the.mud of the.mire and he.set on a.rock feet my he.established steps my

*JPS 1917:* He brought me up also out of the tumultuous pit, out of the miry clay; and He set my feet upon a rock, He established my goings.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3121.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3121/): 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).