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# לוּחִית

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3872

**Luhith** — 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

Luhith [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3872/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

לוּחִית: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3872/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. in Moab; c. art. מַעֲלֵה הַלּוּחִית Is 15:5; Je 48:5 Qr (הַלֻּחִית; Kt. הלחות); it lay S. of the Arnon; cf. BuhlGeogr. 24, 272 and reff.; 𝔊 Λουειθ.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Luhith (2).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 48:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.48.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.48.5/#tree)

כִּ֚י מַעֲלֵ֣ה הַלּוּחִ֔יתבִּבְכִ֖י יַֽעֲלֶה־בֶּ֑כִי כִּ֚י בְּמוֹרַ֣ד חוֹרֹנַ֔יִם צָרֵ֥י צַֽעֲקַת־שֶׁ֖בֶר שָׁמֵֽעוּ׃

*Word for word:* (dm) the.ascent of.(the) Luhith with weeping someone.will.ascend weeping (dm) on the.descent of.Horonaim \[the\].distresses of.the.cry.of.distress of.destruction people.will.hear

*JPS 1917:* For by the ascent of Luhith with continual weeping shall they go up; for in the going down of Horonaim they have heard the distressing cry of destruction.

[Isaiah 15:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.15.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.15.5/#tree)

לִבִּי֙ לְמוֹאָ֣ב יִזְעָ֔ק בְּרִיחֶ֕הָ עַד־צֹ֖עַר עֶגְלַ֣ת שְׁלִשִׁיָּ֑ה עֶגְלַ֣ת שְׁלִשִׁיָּ֑ה כִּ֣י ׀ מַעֲלֵ֣ה הַלּוּחִ֗ית בִּבְכִי֙ יַֽעֲלֶה־בּ֔וֹ כִּ֚י דֶּ֣רֶךְ חוֹרֹנַ֔יִם זַעֲקַת־שֶׁ֖בֶר יְעֹעֵֽרוּ׃

*Word for word:* heart my for Moab it.cries.out fugitives its \[are\].to Zoar Eglath Shelishiyah (dm) the.ascent of.(the) Luhith with weeping it.is.going.up on it (dm) the.road of.Horonaim a.cry of.shattering they.rouse

*JPS 1917:* My heart crieth out for Moab; her fugitives reach unto Zoar, a heifer of three years old; for by the ascent of Luhith with weeping they go up; for in the way of Horonaim they raise up a cry of destruction.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3872/): 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).