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# יְקוּם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3351

**substance** — used 3 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

substance [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3351/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יְקוּם: substance, existence [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3351/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] substance, existence כָּל־הַיְקוּם = all that subsists Gn 7:4, 23 (man and animal), in more limited sense Dt 11:6.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: existence (3).

## In the verses

[Genesis 7:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.7.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.7.4/#tree)

כִּי֩ לְיָמִ֨ים ע֜וֹד שִׁבְעָ֗ה אָֽנֹכִי֙ מַמְטִ֣יר עַל־הָאָ֔רֶץ אַרְבָּעִ֣ים י֔וֹם וְאַרְבָּעִ֖ים לָ֑יְלָה וּמָחִ֗יתִי אֶֽת־כָּל־הַיְקוּם֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר עָשִׂ֔יתִי מֵעַ֖ל פְּנֵ֥י הָֽאֲדָמָֽה׃

*Word for word:* (dm) to days yet seven I \[am\].about.to.bring.rain on the earth forty day\[s\] and forty night\[s\] and I.will.wipe (et) all the existence which I.have.made from on the.surface of the.ground

*JPS 1917:* For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I blot out from off the face of the earth.'

[Genesis 7:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.7.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.7.23/#tree)

וַיִּ֜מַח אֶֽת־כָּל־הַיְק֣וּם ׀ אֲשֶׁ֣ר ׀ עַל־פְּנֵ֣י הָֽאֲדָמָ֗ה מֵאָדָ֤ם עַד־בְּהֵמָה֙ עַד־רֶ֙מֶשׂ֙ וְעַד־ע֣וֹף הַשָּׁמַ֔יִם וַיִּמָּח֖וּ מִן־הָאָ֑רֶץ וַיִשָּׁ֧אֶראַךְ־נֹ֛חַ וַֽאֲשֶׁ֥ר אִתּ֖וֹ בַּתֵּבָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.wiped.out (et) all the existence which \[was\].on the.surface of the.ground from humankind unto animal\[s\] unto creeping.thing\[s\] and unto the.bird\[s\] of the.heavens and they.were.wiped.out from the earth and he.was.left only Noah and.\[those\] who \[were\].with him in the ark

*JPS 1917:* And He blotted out every living substance which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and creeping thing, and fowl of the heaven; and they were blotted out from the earth; and Noah only was left, and they that were with him in the ark.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3351.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3351/): 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).