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# נָפָה

Biblical Hebrew

**sieve** — 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

sieve [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b8_5e4_5b8_5d4/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נָפָה: n.f. sieve [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b8_5e4_5b8_5d4/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. sieve or ther winnowing implement, Di Du Schwinge, CheHpt. fan (as swung);—only cstr. לַהֲנָפָה גוֹיִם בְּנָ֫פַת שָׁוְא Is 30:28 to swing nations in a sieve of worthlessness.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a sieve (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 30:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.30.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.30.28/#tree)

וְרוּח֞וֹ כְּנַ֤חַל שׁוֹטֵף֙ עַד־צַוָּ֣אר יֶֽחֱצֶ֔ה לַהֲנָפָ֥ה גוֹיִ֖ם בְּנָ֣פַת שָׁ֑וְא וְרֶ֣סֶן מַתְעֶ֔ה עַ֖ל לְחָיֵ֥י עַמִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* and breath his \[is\].like a.torrent overflowing to \[the\].neck it.reaches for shaking nations in a.sieve of.worthlessness and a.halter \[which\].misleads on \[the\].jaws of.peoples

*JPS 1917:* And His breath is as an overflowing stream, that divideth even unto the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction; and a bridle that causeth to err shall be in the jaws of the peoples.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e0_5b8_5e4_5b8_5d4.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b8_5e4_5b8_5d4/): 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).