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# יָחֵף

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3182

**barefoot** — used 5 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

barefoot [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3182/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יָחֵף: adj. barefoot [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3182/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. barefoot, always abs. יָחֵף Is 20:2 + 4 times;—הלך עָרוֹם וְיָחֵף Is 20:2 (נַעַלְךָ תַחֲלֹץ מֵעַל רַגְלֶ֑ךָ in preceding cl.), v 3; הֹלֵךְ יָחֵף 2 S 15:30; נָהַג יָחֵף Is 20:4; appar. = subst., מִנְעִי רַגְלֵךְ מִיָּחֵף Je 2:25 withhold thy foot from bareness (Syriac ܝܽܘܚܳܦܳܐ discalceatio).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 2:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.2.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.2.25/#tree)

מִנְעִ֤י רַגְלֵךְ֙ מִיָּחֵ֔ף וּגְרוֹנֵ֖ךְ מִצִּמְאָ֑ה וַתֹּאמְרִ֣י נוֹאָ֔שׁ ל֕וֹא כִּֽי־אָהַ֥בְתִּי זָרִ֖ים וְאַחֲרֵיהֶ֥ם אֵלֵֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* restrain foot your from barefoot and throat your from thirst and you.said despairing no (dm) I.love strange.\[gods\] and after them I.will.walk

*JPS 1917:* Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst; but thou saidst: 'There is no hope; no, for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.'

[Isaiah 20:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.20.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.20.3/#tree)

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר יְהוָ֔ה כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר הָלַ֛ךְ עַבְדִּ֥י יְשַׁעְיָ֖הוּ עָר֣וֹם וְיָחֵ֑ף שָׁלֹ֤שׁ שָׁנִים֙ א֣וֹת וּמוֹפֵ֔ת עַל־מִצְרַ֖יִם וְעַל־כּֽוּשׁ׃

*Word for word:* and he.said Yahweh just as he.has.gone servant my Isaiah naked and barefoot three years a.sign and a.portent on Egypt and on Cush

*JPS 1917:* And the LORD said: 'Like as My servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot to be for three years a sign and a wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia,

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3182.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3182/): 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).