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# יַעְרָה

Biblical Hebrew

**honeycomb** — 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

honeycomb [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/lemma_3a_5d9_5b7_5e2_5b0_5e8_5b8_5d4/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יַעְרָה: n.f. honeycomb [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/lemma_3a_5d9_5b7_5e2_5b0_5e8_5b8_5d4/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. honeycomb, only cstr. יַעְרַת הַדְּבָשׁ 1 S 14:27 (v. ii. יער).—יְעָרוֹת v. i. יַעַר.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[1 Samuel 14:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.14.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.14.27/#tree)

וְיוֹנָתָ֣ן לֹֽא־שָׁמַ֗ע בְּהַשְׁבִּ֣יעַ אָבִיו֮ אֶת־הָעָם֒ וַיִּשְׁלַ֗ח אֶת־קְצֵ֤ה הַמַּטֶּה֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר בְּיָד֔וֹ וַיִּטְבֹּ֥ל אוֹתָ֖הּ בְּיַעְרַ֣ת הַדְּבָ֑שׁ וַיָּ֤שֶׁב יָדוֹ֙ אֶל־פִּ֔יו וַתָּאֹ֖רְנָה עֵינָֽיו׃

*Word for word:* and Jonathan not he.had.heard when made.to.swear.an.oath father his (et) the people and he.stretched.out (et) the.end of the.staff which \[was\].in hand his and he.dipped it in the.honeycomb of the.honey and he.brought.back hand his to mouth his and they.brightened eyes his

*JPS 1917:* But Jonathan heard not when his father charged the people with the oath; and he put forth the end of the rod that was in his hand, and dipped it in the honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes brightened.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5d9_5b7_5e2_5b0_5e8_5b8_5d4.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/lemma_3a_5d9_5b7_5e2_5b0_5e8_5b8_5d4/): 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).