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# נָהַג

Biblical Hebrew

**moan** — 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

moan [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b8_5d4_5b7_5d2/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נָהַג²: vb.Pi. moan, lament [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b8_5d4_5b7_5d2/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb.Pi. moan, lament (Arabic نَهِجَ be out of breath, pant, breathe heavily; Aramaic ܢܗܰܓ sigh, groan);— Pt. fpl. מְנַהֲגוֹת Na 2:8 (כְּקוֹל יוֹנִים).

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

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Nahum 2:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/NAM.2.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/NAM.2.8/#tree)

וְהֻצַּ֖ב גֻּלְּתָ֣ה הֹֽעֲלָ֑תָה וְאַמְהֹתֶ֗יהָ מְנַֽהֲגוֹת֙ כְּק֣וֹל יוֹנִ֔ים מְתֹפְפֹ֖ת עַל־לִבְבֵהֶֽן׃

*Word for word:* and it.has.been.fixed it.was.uncovered it.was.taken.away and maidservants its \[are\].moaning like.\[the\] sound of.doves \[they.are\].beating on hearts their

*JPS 1917:* And the queen is uncovered, she is carried away, and her handmaids moan as with the voice of doves, tabering upon their breasts.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e0_5b8_5d4_5b7_5d2.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b8_5d4_5b7_5d2/): 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).