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# יֵרָקוֹן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3420

**mildew** — used 6 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

mildew [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3420/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יֵרָקוֹן: n.m. mildew, paleness, lividness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3420/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. mildew, paleness, lividness; rust Am 4:9 Dt 28:22 1 K 8:37 Hg 2:17 2 Ch 6:28 (all ‖ שִׁדָּפוֹן). paleness (of face) Je 30:6.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 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: mildew (5); paleness (1).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 30:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.30.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.30.6/#tree)

שַׁאֲלוּ־נָ֣א וּרְא֔וּ אִם־יֹלֵ֖ד זָכָ֑ר מַדּוּעַ֩ רָאִ֨יתִי כָל־גֶּ֜בֶר יָדָ֤יו עַל־חֲלָצָיו֙ כַּיּ֣וֹלֵדָ֔ה וְנֶהֶפְכ֥וּ כָל־פָּנִ֖ים לְיֵרָקֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* ask please and see if \[is\].giving.birth a.male why? have.I.seen every man hands his \[are\].on loins his like.(the) \[woman who\].gives.birth and have.they.been.changed? all faces into paleness

*JPS 1917:* Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child; wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?

[Haggai 2:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAG.2.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAG.2.17/#tree)

הִכֵּ֨יתִי אֶתְכֶ֜ם בַּשִּׁדָּפ֤וֹן וּבַיֵּֽרָקוֹן֙ וּבַבָּרָ֔ד אֵ֖ת כָּל־מַעֲשֵׂ֣ה יְדֵיכֶ֑ם וְאֵין־אֶתְכֶ֥ם אֵלַ֖י נְאֻם־יְהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* I.struck you with (the) blight and with (the) mildew and with (the) hail (et) all the.work your.hands your and not you \[were\].to me the.utterance of.Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the work of your hands; yet ye turned not to Me, saith the LORD —

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3420/): 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).