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# יָעָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3261

**sweep together** — 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

sweep together [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3261/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יָעָה: sweep together [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3261/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. sweep together (with collat. ides of carrying away) (Arabic وَعَى is collect, gather)— Pf. וְיָעָה consec. Is 28:17 subj. בָּרָד c. acc. (ויעה ב׳ מַחְסֵה כָזָב). cf. also Arabic وُعَاءٌ vessel Gn 42:25 Saad; cf. BaldenspergerPEF 1904, 53, who cp. Mod. Arabic waʿâ (وَعَا).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Isaiah 28:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.28.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.28.17/#tree)

וְשַׂמְתִּ֤י מִשְׁפָּט֙ לְקָ֔ו וּצְדָקָ֖ה לְמִשְׁקָ֑לֶת וְיָעָ֤ה בָרָד֙ מַחְסֵ֣ה כָזָ֔ב וְסֵ֥תֶר מַ֖יִם יִשְׁטֹֽפוּ׃

*Word for word:* and I.will.make justice (into).a measuring-line and righteousness (into).a leveling.tool and it.will.sweep.away hail \[the\].refuge of.falsehood and.\[the\] shelter waters they.will.overflow

*JPS 1917:* And I will make justice the line, and righteousness the plummet; and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding-place.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3261.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3261/): 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).