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# ירה

Biblical Hebrew

**throw** — 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

throw [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/lemma_3a_5d9_5e8_5d4/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יָרַהּ: vb. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/lemma_3a_5d9_5e8_5d4/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. only Impf. 3 mpl. תִּרְהוּ Is 44:8 (van d. H. Baer, but prob. תִּֽרְהוּ si vera l., so Thes);? be stupefied (cf. Arabic وَرِهَ, Thes al.), but Frey fatuus et stolidus fuit; תִּֽרְאוּ from ירא (‖ פחד).

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (10 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (7 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: fear (1); he will be watered (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 11:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.11.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.11.25/#tree)

נֶֽפֶשׁ־בְּרָכָ֥ה תְדֻשָּׁ֑ן וּ֝מַרְוֶ֗ה גַּם־ה֥וּא יוֹרֶֽא׃

*Word for word:* a.person of.blessing he.will.be.made.fat and \[one.who\].gives.water also he he.will.be.watered

*JPS 1917:* The beneficent soul shall be made rich, and he that satisfieth abundantly shall be satisfied also himself.

[Isaiah 44:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.44.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.44.8/#tree)

אַֽל־תִּפְחֲדוּ֙ וְאַל־תִּרְה֔וּ הֲלֹ֥א מֵאָ֛ז הִשְׁמַעְתִּ֥יךָ וְהִגַּ֖דְתִּי וְאַתֶּ֣ם עֵדָ֑י הֲיֵ֤שׁ אֱל֙וֹהַּ֙ מִבַּלְעָדַ֔י וְאֵ֥ין צ֖וּר בַּל־יָדָֽעְתִּי׃

*Word for word:* do.not be.in.dread and do.not fear ? not from then did I.proclaim.to.you and did.I.declare and you witnesses \[are\].my \[is\] there? a.god (from) except me and there.\[is\].not a.rock not I.know

*JPS 1917:* Fear ye not, neither be afraid; have I not announced unto thee of old, and declared it? And ye are My witnesses. Is there a God beside Me? Yea, there is no Rock; I know not any.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5d9_5e8_5d4.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/lemma_3a_5d9_5e8_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).