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# נָחֵת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5181

**go down** — used 10 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

go down [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5181/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נָחֵת: vb. go down, descend Niph. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5181/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. (Aramaic and poet.) go down, descend (Aramaic נְחֵת, ܢܚܶܬ; Palm. נחת Lzb 323);— Impf. 3 ms. יֵחַת Je 21:13; 3 fs. תֵּ֫חַת Pr 17:10, וַתִּנְחַת ψ 38:3; 3 mpl. יֵחַ֑תּוּ Jb 21:13 (forms יֵחַת, יֵחַתּוּ v. also חתת);— go down, descend, to attack Je 21:13; into She’ôl Jb 21:13. fig. descend in chastisement ψ 38:3 (hand of י׳; ‖Niph. v. infr.); sq. בְּ descend into i. e. make impression on, Pr 17:10 (of reproof). Pf. 3 mpl. נִחֲתוּ sq. בְּ = penetrate ψ 38:3, (of arrows of י׳). Pf. 3 ms. consec. וְנִחַת 2 S 22:35 (v. Ges§ 145, 7); = 3 fs. וְנִחֲתָה ψ 18:35; Inf. abs. נַחֵת ψ 65:11;—cause to descend = press down, according to most, in וְנ׳ קֶשֶׁת נְחוּשָׁה זְרֹעֹתָ֑י 2 S 22:35 = ψ 18:35 so that my arms press down, stretch, a bow of bronze, but dub.; Bu conj. Hiph. יַנְחִת; HPS וַיָּ֫שֶׁת and makes my arms a bow of bronze; of pressing down, smoothing out, furrows of land ψ 65:11. Imv. הַנְחַת Jo 4:11 thither bring down thy heroes, י׳! (on form cf. Ges§ 64 R. 3 Köi. 314 f.).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (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: it stretches (2); bring down (1); it goes down (1).

## In the verses

[Job 17:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.17.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.17.16/#tree)

בַּדֵּ֣י שְׁאֹ֣ל תֵּרַ֑דְנָה אִם־יַ֖חַד עַל־עָפָ֣ר נָֽחַת׃ס

*Word for word:* the.poles of.Sheol will.they.go.down? or? together to \[the\].dust will.we.go.down

*JPS 1917:* They shall go down to the bars of the nether-world, when we are at rest together in the dust.

[Proverbs 17:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.17.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.17.10/#tree)

תֵּ֣חַת גְּעָרָ֣ה בְמֵבִ֑ין מֵהַכּ֖וֹת כְּסִ֣יל מֵאָֽה׃

*Word for word:* it.goes.down a.rebuke in \[one.who\].has.understanding more than.striking a.fool a.hundred.\[times\]

*JPS 1917:* A rebuke entereth deeper into a man of understanding than a hundred stripes into a fool.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5181.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5181/): 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).