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# כְּבָרָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3531

**a sieve** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

a sieve [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3531/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כְּבָרָה: n.f. sieve [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3531/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. a sieve (a net-like implement), Am 9:9 כַּאֲשֶׁר יִנּוֹעַ בַּכְּבָרָה as it (corn) is shaken (i.e. sifted) in a sieve. Cf. WetzstZPV xiv. 1 ff.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: sieve (1).

## In the verses

[Amos 9:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.9.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.9.9/#tree)

כִּֽי־הִנֵּ֤ה אָֽנֹכִי֙ מְצַוֶּ֔ה וַהֲנִע֥וֹתִי בְכָֽל־הַגּוֹיִ֖ם אֶת־בֵּ֣ית יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל כַּאֲשֶׁ֤ר יִנּ֙וֹעַ֙ בַּכְּבָרָ֔ה וְלֹֽא־יִפּ֥וֹל צְר֖וֹר אָֽרֶץ׃

*Word for word:* (dm) here! I \[am\].about.to.command and I.will.shake among all the nations (et) the.house of.Israel just as it.is.shaken in (the) sieve and not it.will.fall a.pebble \[the\].ground

*JPS 1917:* For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all the nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3531/): 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).