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# נְטִישֹׁות

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5189

**twig** — used 3 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

twig [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5189/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נְטִישָׁה: n.f. twig, tendril Niph. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5189/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. twig, tendril of vine (as spreading, cf. √ Niph. 3);—only pl. הַנְּטִישׁוֹת הֵסִיר הֵתַז Is 18:5 the tendrils he hath removed, cf. הָסִירוּ נְטִישׁוֹתֶיהָ Je 5:10 (appar. cited from Is.; expl. by Finn Journ. Trans. Vict. Inst. xxii. 306 f. from use by shepherds of poterium spinosum, called nettsh, as defence of sheepfolds),—in both of destroying city (under fig. of vineyard); נְטִישֹׁתַיִךְ עָֽבְרוּ יָם Je 48:32 thy tendrils went over the sea (fig. of prosperity of Moab).

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

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 5:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.5.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.5.10/#tree)

עֲל֤וּ בְשָׁרוֹתֶ֙יהָ֙ וְשַׁחֵ֔תוּ וְכָלָ֖ה אַֽל־תַּעֲשׂ֑וּ הָסִ֙ירוּ֙ נְטִ֣ישׁוֹתֶ֔יהָ כִּ֛י ל֥וֹא לַיהוָ֖ה הֵֽמָּה׃

*Word for word:* go.up among its.vine rows and destroy.\[them\] and complete.destruction do.not make remove tendrils its (dm) not \[belong\].to Yahweh they

*JPS 1917:* Go ye up into her rows, and destroy, but make not a full end; take away her shoots; for they are not the LORD'S.

[Isaiah 18:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.18.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.18.5/#tree)

כִּֽי־לִפְנֵ֤י קָצִיר֙ כְּתָם־פֶּ֔רַח וּבֹ֥סֶר גֹּמֵ֖ל יִֽהְיֶ֣ה נִצָּ֑ה וְכָרַ֤ת הַזַּלְזַלִּים֙ בַּמַּזְמֵר֔וֹת וְאֶת־הַנְּטִישׁ֖וֹת הֵסִ֥יר הֵתַֽז׃

*Word for word:* (dm) before harvest just as.is.finished bud\[s\] and unripe.grape\[s\] ripening it.will.become blossom and he.will.cut.off the shoots with.(the) pruning knives and (et) the tendrils he.will.remove he.will.cut.away

*JPS 1917:* For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the bud becometh a ripening grape, He will cut off the sprigs with pruning-hooks, and the shoots will He take away and lop off.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5189.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5189/): 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).