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# לַח

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3892

**moist** — 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

moist [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3892/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

לַח²: adj. moist, fresh, new [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3892/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. moist, fresh, new;—ל׳ Gn 30:37; Ez 21:3; לָ֑ח 17:24; pl. לַחִים Nu 6:3 + 2 times;— moist, fresh, of trees, fruit, etc.; לִבְנֶה לַה Gn 30:37 (J); עֵץ ל׳ Ez 17:24; 21:3; grapes עֲנָבִים ל׳ Nu 6:3. new, of cords, יְתָרִים ל׳ Ju 16:7, 8, prob. made of fresh sinews of animal (cf. Syriac ܝܺܬܰܪ PS 1652; GFMad loc.)

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 (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: fresh (4); moist (2).

## In the verses

[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.

[Judges 16:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.16.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.16.7/#tree)

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר אֵלֶ֙יהָ֙ שִׁמְשׁ֔וֹן אִם־יַאַסְרֻ֗נִי בְּשִׁבְעָ֛ה יְתָרִ֥ים לַחִ֖ים אֲשֶׁ֣ר לֹא־חֹרָ֑בוּוְחָלִ֥יתִי וְהָיִ֖יתִי כְּאַחַ֥ד הָאָדָֽם׃

*Word for word:* and he.said to her Samson if people will.bind.me with seven cords fresh which not they.have.been.dried and I.will.be.weak and I.will.be like one of.(the) humankind

*JPS 1917:* And Samson said unto her: 'If they bind me with seven fresh bowstrings that were never dried, then shall I become weak, and be as any other man.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3892.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3892/): 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).