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# נָשֶׁה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5384

**a vein** — used 2 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

a vein [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5384/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נָשֶׁה: vein nerve in the thigh [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5384/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] a vein (or nerve) in the thigh (etym. dub.; on format. cf. LagBN 50; Arabic نَسًا appar. the portion of the principal vein of the leg which is in the thigh, vulg. sciatic vein, or (mod.) sciatic nerve and even sciatica, Lane 3033);—only גִּיד הַנָּשֶׁה Gn 32:33 a the sinew of the thigh-vein (or thigh-nerve, אֲשֶׁר עַל־כַּף הַיָּרֵךְ cf. v 33b.—On sacredness of thigh, cf. RSSem i. 360; 2nd ed. 380 WeHeid. (2), 168.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the hip nerve (2).

## In the verses

[Genesis 32:33](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.32.33/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.32.33/#tree)

עַל־כֵּ֡ן לֹֽא־יֹאכְל֨וּ בְנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֜ל אֶת־גִּ֣יד הַנָּשֶׁ֗ה אֲשֶׁר֙ עַל־כַּ֣ף הַיָּרֵ֔ךְ עַ֖ד הַיּ֣וֹם הַזֶּ֑ה כִּ֤י נָגַע֙ בְּכַף־יֶ֣רֶךְ יַעֲקֹ֔ב בְּגִ֖יד הַנָּשֶֽׁה׃

*Word for word:* therefore not they.eat the.people of.Israel (et) the.tendon of the.hip.nerve which \[is\].on the.socket of the.thigh until the day (the) this (dm) he.touched (in).the socket of.the.thigh of.Jacob (in).the tendon of the.hip.nerve

*JPS 1917:* Therefore the children of Israel eat not the sinew of the thigh-vein which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day; because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh, even in the sinew of the thigh-vein.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5384.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5384/): 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).