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# נָפָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5299

**height** — 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

height [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5299/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נָפָה²: n.f. height [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5299/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. height;—only cstr. in combin. נָפַת דּוֹר Jos 12:23 = נ׳ דֹּאר 1 K 4:11, pl. cstr. נָפוֹת ד׳ Jos 11:2; cf. ii. דּוֹר, and Di Jos 11:2; v. also \[נֶפֶת\].

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (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: the height (2); the heights (1).

## In the verses

[Joshua 12:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.12.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.12.23/#tree)

מֶ֥לֶךְ דּ֛וֹר לְנָפַ֥ת דּ֖וֹר אֶחָ֑ד מֶֽלֶךְ־גּוֹיִ֥ם לְגִלְגָּ֖ל אֶחָֽד׃

*Word for word:* the.king of.Dor of the.height of.Dor one the.king of.Goyim of Gilgal one

*JPS 1917:* the king of Dor in the region of Dor, one; the king of Goiim in the Gilgal, one;

[1 Kings 4:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.4.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.4.11/#tree)

בֶּן־אֲבִֽינָדָ֖ב כָּל־נָ֣פַת דֹּ֑אר טָפַת֙ בַּת־שְׁלֹמֹ֔ה הָ֥יְתָה לּ֖וֹ לְאִשָּֽׁה׃ס

*Word for word:* Ben- Abinadab all the.height of.Dor Taphath the.daughter of.Solomon she.became for him (into).a wife

*JPS 1917:* the son of Abinadab, in all the region of Dor; he had Taphath the daughter of Solomon to wife;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5299.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5299/): 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).