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# יָעֶה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3257

**distortion** — 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

distortion [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3257/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יָע²: shovel [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3257/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] shovel (𝔗 Jer יָעֵי Ex 27:3)—pl. הַיָּעִים Ex 38:3 + 7 times; יָעָיו 27:3;—utensils for cleaning altar, shovels Ex 27:3; 38:3 Nu 4:14 (all P), 1 K 7:40, 45; 2 K 25:14; 2 Ch 4:11, 16; Je 52:18 (only in lists of utensils).

Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 9 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: shovels (9).

## In the verses

[Exodus 27:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.27.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.27.3/#tree)

וְעָשִׂ֤יתָ סִּֽירֹתָיו֙ לְדַשְּׁנ֔וֹ וְיָעָיו֙ וּמִזְרְקֹתָ֔יו וּמִזְלְגֹתָ֖יו וּמַחְתֹּתָ֑יו לְכָל־כֵּלָ֖יו תַּעֲשֶׂ֥ה נְחֹֽשֶׁת׃

*Word for word:* and you.will.make pots its to take away.its.fatty.ashes and shovels its and bowls its and forks its and fire-pans its to all articles its you.will.make bronze

*JPS 1917:* And thou shalt make its pots to take away its ashes, and its shovels, and its basins, and its flesh-hooks, and its fire-pans; all the vessels thereof thou shalt make of brass.

[2 Kings 25:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.25.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.25.14/#tree)

וְאֶת־הַסִּירֹ֨ת וְאֶת־הַיָּעִ֜ים וְאֶת־הַֽמְזַמְּר֣וֹת וְאֶת־הַכַּפּ֗וֹת וְאֵ֨ת כָּל־כְּלֵ֧י הַנְּחֹ֛שֶׁת אֲשֶׁ֥ר יְשָֽׁרְתוּ־בָ֖ם לָקָֽחוּ׃

*Word for word:* and (et) the pots and (et) the shovels and (et) the snuffers and (et) the pans and (et) all the.articles of.(the) bronze which people.served with them they.took.away

*JPS 1917:* And the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the pans, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3257.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3257/): 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).