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# נֵפֶל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5309

**untimely birth** — 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

untimely birth [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5309/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נֵ֫פֶל: n.m. miscarriage, abortion [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5309/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** \[נֶפֶל\] n.m. Jb 3:16 miscarriage, abortion;—נֵ֫פֶל abs. Jb 3:16 (Baer, Ginsb., \> van d. H. נֶפֶל), נָ֑פל Ec 6:3; cstr. נֵפֶל אֵשֶׁת ψ 58:9.

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 (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a miscarriage (2); miscarriage (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 58:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.58.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.58.9/#tree)

כְּמ֣וֹ שַׁ֭בְּלוּל תֶּ֣מֶס יַהֲלֹ֑ךְ נֵ֥פֶל אֵ֝֗שֶׁת בַּל־חָ֥זוּ שָֽׁמֶשׁ׃

*Word for word:* like a.snail \[which\].melting.away it.goes a.miscarriage of.a.woman (of).\[which\].not they.have.seen \[the\].sun

*JPS 1917:* Let them be as a snail which melteth and passeth away; like the untimely births of a woman, that have not seen the sun.

[Job 3:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.3.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.3.16/#tree)

א֤וֹכְנֵ֣פֶל טָ֭מוּן לֹ֣א אֶהְיֶ֑ה כְּ֝עֹלְלִ֗ים לֹא־רָ֥אוּ אֽוֹר׃

*Word for word:* or like a.miscarriage hidden not was.I? like children \[who\].not they.have.seen light

*JPS 1917:* Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants that never saw light.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5309.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5309/): 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).