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# נֵבֶךְ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5033

**spring** — 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

spring [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5033/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נֵ֫בֶךְ: spring [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5033/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] spring (si vera l.) (√ unknown);—only pl. cstr. נִבְכֵי־יָם Jb 38:16 the springs, sources of the ocean (‖ חֵ֫קֶר תְּהוֹם);—Ol Siegf נִבְלֵי; Bu suggests נבעי = מַכֻּעֵי as poss.; but Gr Perles read נִבְכֵי Jb 28:11, also, for Mass. מִבְּכִי, cf. נָהָר 2.

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

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Job 38:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.38.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.38.16/#tree)

הֲ֭בָאתָ עַד־נִבְכֵי־יָ֑ם וּבְחֵ֥קֶר תְּ֝ה֗וֹם הִתְהַלָּֽכְתָּ׃

*Word for word:* have you.gone? to \[the\].springs of.\[the\].sea and in the.searching of.the.deep have.you.walked.about?

*JPS 1917:* Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? Or hast thou walked in the recesses of the deep?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5033.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5033/): 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).