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# נָזִיד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5138

**thing sodden** — 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

thing sodden [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5138/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נָזִיד: thing sodden or boiled, pottage Hiph. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5138/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] thing sodden or boiled, pottage; abs. נ׳ Gn 25:29 + 4 times; cstr. נְזִיד Gn 25:34;—a kind of boiled leguminous food, obj. of וַיָּ֫זֶד Gn 25:29 (v. זוּד Hiph.); defined v 34 as נְזִיד עֲדָשִׁים (v. עדשׁ); obj. of בַּשֵּׁל 2 K 4:38; boiled in a סִיר v 39 cf. v 40; mentioned, appar. as a common food, Hg 2:12.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 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: cooked food (3); the cooked food (2); food (1).

## In the verses

[Genesis 25:29](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.25.29/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.25.29/#tree)

וַיָּ֥זֶד יַעֲקֹ֖ב נָזִ֑יד וַיָּבֹ֥א עֵשָׂ֛ו מִן־הַשָּׂדֶ֖ה וְה֥וּא עָיֵֽף׃

*Word for word:* and he.had.cooked Jacob cooked.food and he.came Esau from the field and he \[was\].exhausted

*JPS 1917:* And Jacob sod pottage; and Esau came in from the field, and he was faint.

[Genesis 25:34](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.25.34/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.25.34/#tree)

וְיַעֲקֹ֞ב נָתַ֣ן לְעֵשָׂ֗ו לֶ֚חֶם וּנְזִ֣יד עֲדָשִׁ֔ים וַיֹּ֣אכַל וַיֵּ֔שְׁתְּ וַיָּ֖קָם וַיֵּלַ֑ךְ וַיִּ֥בֶז עֵשָׂ֖ו אֶת־הַבְּכֹרָֽה׃ס

*Word for word:* and Jacob he.gave to Esau bread and cooked.food of.lentils and he.ate and he.drank and he.arose and he.went and he.despised Esau (et) the birthright

*JPS 1917:* And Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentils; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way. So Esau despised his birthright.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5138.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5138/): 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).