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# יֶתֶר

Biblical Hebrew

**cord** — used 5 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

cord [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/lemma_3a_5d9_5b6_5ea_5b6_5e8/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יֶ֫תֶר²: n.m. cord [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/lemma_3a_5d9_5b6_5ea_5b6_5e8/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Ju 16:7 cord (proposes as hanging over or down; Aramaic יַתְרָא part of the intestines, 𝔗 יְתָרַיָּא ropes, ܝܰܬܪܳܐ cord, rope, chord of arc; Arabic وَتَرٌ bow-string, lute-string; Ethiopic ወትር sinew, cord; ወተረ stretch bowstring, strain (eyes), be intent, eager, etc.)—יֶתֶ֑ר ψ 11:2 + 5times; sf. יִתְרוֹ Kt Jb 30:11 (יִתְרִי Qr); יִתְרָם Jb 4:21;—cord, for binding a man Ju 16:7, 8, 9; bowstring ψ 11:2 Jb 30:11 (according to Qr, opp. 29:20 b; Kt = his cord, with which he reins in my assailants; cf. Di Da). Jb 4:21 tent-cord Ew De Di RV; yet read perhaps יְתֵדָם their tent-peg, so Ol Hi Sgfr (\> AV their excellency, from i. יֶתֶר).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (15 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (13 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: cords (3); \[the\] bowstring (1); tent-cord (1).

## In the verses

[Job 4:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.4.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.4.21/#tree)

הֲלֹא־נִסַּ֣ע יִתְרָ֣ם בָּ֑ם יָ֝מ֗וּתוּ וְלֹ֣א בְחָכְמָֽה׃

*Word for word:* ? not has.it.been.pulled.up tent-cord their in them will.they.die? and not with wisdom

*JPS 1917:* Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.'

[Judges 16:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.16.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.16.8/#tree)

וַיַּעֲלוּ־לָ֞הּ סַרְנֵ֣י פְלִשְׁתִּ֗ים שִׁבְעָ֛ה יְתָרִ֥ים לַחִ֖ים אֲשֶׁ֣ר לֹא־חֹרָ֑בוּ וַתַּאַסְרֵ֖הוּ בָּהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* and they.brought.up to her the.rulers of.\[the\].Philistines seven cords fresh which not they.had.been.dried and she bound.him with them

*JPS 1917:* Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven fresh bowstrings which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5d9_5b6_5ea_5b6_5e8.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/lemma_3a_5d9_5b6_5ea_5b6_5e8/): 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).