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# יִקְּהָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3349

**obedience** — 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

obedience [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3349/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יִקְהָה: n.f. obedience [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3349/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. obedience;—cstr. יִקְּהַת עַמִּים Gn 49:10 c. subject. genit. (Daghesh forte dirim. Ges§ 20, 2 b LagBN 82), לִיקְּהַת אֵם Pr 30:17 c. object. genit.

Why these entries: BDB: headword without dagesh, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 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: \[the\] obedience (1); obedience (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 30:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.30.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.30.17/#tree)

עַ֤יִן ׀ תִּֽלְעַ֣ג לְאָב֮ וְתָב֪וּז לִֽיקֲּהַ֫ת־אֵ֥ם יִקְּר֥וּהָ עֹרְבֵי־נַ֑חַל וְֽיֹאכְל֥וּהָ בְנֵי־נָֽשֶׁר׃פ

*Word for word:* an.eye \[which\].it.mocks (to).a father and.\[which\] it.despises (to) obedience of.a.mother they will.peck.it.out \[the\].ravens of.\[the\].wadi and they will.eat.it \[the\].young of.an.eagle

*JPS 1917:* The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young vultures shall eat it.

[Genesis 49:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.49.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.49.10/#tree)

לֹֽא־יָס֥וּר שֵׁ֙בֶט֙ מִֽיהוּדָ֔ה וּמְחֹקֵ֖ק מִבֵּ֣ין רַגְלָ֑יו עַ֚ד כִּֽי־יָבֹ֣א שִׁיל֔וֹ וְל֖וֹ יִקְּהַ֥ת עַמִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* not it.will.depart a.scepter from Judah and a.ruler's.staff from between feet his until (dm) he.will.come Shiloh and \[will belong\].to.him \[the\].obedience of.peoples

*JPS 1917:* The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, as long as men come to Shiloh; and unto him shall the obedience of the peoples be.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3349.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3349/): 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).