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# מֵאֵן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3987

**refractory** — 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

refractory [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/3987/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מֵאֵן: adj. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/3987/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. id. pl. מֵאֲנִים sq. Inf., of disobeying י׳ Je 13:10.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech differs, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech differs, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: are\] refusing (1).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 13:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.13.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.13.10/#tree)

הָעָם֩ הַזֶּ֨ה הָרָ֜ע הַֽמֵּאֲנִ֣ים ׀ לִשְׁמ֣וֹעַ אֶת־דְּבָרַ֗י הַהֹֽלְכִים֙ בִּשְׁרִר֣וּת לִבָּ֔ם וַיֵּלְכ֗וּ אַֽחֲרֵי֙ אֱלֹהִ֣ים אֲחֵרִ֔ים לְעָבְדָ֖ם וּלְהִשְׁתַּחֲוֺ֣ת לָהֶ֑ם וִיהִי֙ כָּאֵז֣וֹר הַזֶּ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֥ר לֹא־יִצְלַ֖ח לַכֹּֽל׃

*Word for word:* the people (the) this (the) wicked \[who are\].refusing to hear (et) words my \[who are\].walking in the.stubbornness their.own.heart their and they.have.walked after gods other to serve them and to bow.down to them and let.it.be like the loincloth (the) this which not it.is.profitable for (the) anything

*JPS 1917:* even this evil people, that refuse to hear My words, that walk in the stubbornness of their heart, and are gone after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, that it be as this girdle, which is profitable for nothing.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3987.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/3987/): 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).