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# נְמָלָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5244

**ant** — 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

ant [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5244/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נְמָלָה: n.f.unit. ant [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5244/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f.unit. (LagBN 81) ant (NH id.; Arabic نَمْلَةٌ (nom. unit of نَمْلٌ); Syriac ܢܡܳܠܴܐ );—abs. נ׳ Pr 6:6; pl. הַנְּמָלִים 30:25.

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

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: an ant (1); ants (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 6:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.6.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.6.6/#tree)

לֵֽךְ־אֶל־נְמָלָ֥ה עָצֵ֑ל רְאֵ֖ה דְרָכֶ֣יהָ וַחֲכָֽם׃

*Word for word:* go to an.ant O.sluggard consider ways its and become.wise

*JPS 1917:* Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise;

[Proverbs 30:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.30.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.30.25/#tree)

הַ֭נְּמָלִים עַ֣ם לֹא־עָ֑ז וַיָּכִ֖ינוּ בַקַּ֣יִץ לַחְמָֽם׃

*Word for word:* the ants \[are\].a.people not strong and they.prepared in the summer food their

*JPS 1917:* The ants are a people not strong, yet they provide their food in the summer;

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5244/): 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).