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# נְשִׁיָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5388

**forgetfulness** — 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

forgetfulness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5388/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נְשִׁיָּה: n.f. forgetfulness, oblivion [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5388/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. forgetfulness, oblivion, אֶרֶץ נ׳ ψ 88:13 (‖ חֹשֶׁךְ), designation of שְׁאוֹל (cf. v 11, 12).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 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: of forgetting (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 88:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.88.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.88.13/#tree)

הֲיִוָּדַ֣ע בַּחֹ֣שֶׁךְ פִּלְאֶ֑ךָ וְ֝צִדְקָתְךָ֗ בְּאֶ֣רֶץ נְשִׁיָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* will it.be.known? in the darkness wonder\[s\] your and righteousness your in.\[the\] land of.forgetting

*JPS 1917:* Shall Thy wonders be known in the dark? and Thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5388.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5388/): 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).