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# נַהַם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5099

**growling** — 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

growling [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5099/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נַ֫הַם: growling [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5099/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] growling of lion;—fig. of king’s wrath Pr 19:12, cf. 20:2.

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 (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: \[is\] a roaring (2).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 20:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.20.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.20.2/#tree)

נַ֣הַם כַּ֭כְּפִיר אֵ֣ימַת מֶ֑לֶךְ מִ֝תְעַבְּר֗וֹ חוֹטֵ֥א נַפְשֽׁוֹ׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].a.roaring like.(the) young lion \[the\].terror of.a.king \[one who\].infuriates.him \[is\].missing life his

*JPS 1917:* The terror of a king is as the roaring of a lion: he that provoketh him to anger forfeiteth his life.

[Proverbs 19:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.19.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.19.12/#tree)

נַ֣הַם כַּ֭כְּפִיר זַ֣עַף מֶ֑לֶךְ וּכְטַ֖ל עַל־עֵ֣שֶׂב רְצוֹנֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].a.roaring like.(the) young lion \[the\].rage of.a.king and.\[is\] like dew on grass favor his

*JPS 1917:* The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5099.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5099/): 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).