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# נָחֵת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5185

**descending** — 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

descending [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5185/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נָחֵת²: adj. descending [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5185/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. descending;—mpl. נְחִתִּים (on form cf. Köii. 81), 2 K 6:9 (to battle); but read prob. with Th Klo Benz after 𝔊 נֶחְבִּים hidden.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[2 Kings 6:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.6.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.6.9/#tree)

וַיִּשְׁלַ֞ח אִ֣ישׁ הָאֱלֹהִ֗ים אֶל־מֶ֤לֶךְ יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר הִשָּׁ֕מֶר מֵעֲבֹ֖ר הַמָּק֣וֹם הַזֶּ֑ה כִּֽי־שָׁ֖ם אֲרָ֥ם נְחִתִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* and he.sent the.man of.(the) God to the.king of.Israel (cmp) take.care from passing.by the place (the) this (dm) there Aram \[is\].descending

*JPS 1917:* And the man of God sent unto the king of Israel, saying: 'Beware that thou pass not such a place; for thither the Arameans are coming down.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5185.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5185/): 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).