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# נְשִׁיקָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5390

**kiss** — used 2 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

kiss [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5390/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נְשִׁיקָה: n.f. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5390/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. kiss;—only pl. cstr.: יִשָּׁקֵנִי מִנְּשִׁיקוֹת פִּיהוּ Ct 1:2; נְשִׁיקוֹת שׂוֹנֵא Pr 27:6 kisses of an enemy.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[the\] kisses (1); the kisses (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 27:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.27.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.27.6/#tree)

נֶ֭אֱמָנִים פִּצְעֵ֣י אוֹהֵ֑ב וְ֝נַעְתָּר֗וֹת נְשִׁיק֥וֹת שׂוֹנֵֽא׃

*Word for word:* \[are\].reliable \[the\].bruises of.\[one.who\].loves and.\[are\] abundant \[the\].kisses of.\[one.who\].hates

*JPS 1917:* Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are importunate.

[Song of Songs 1:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.1.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.1.2/#tree)

יִשָּׁקֵ֙נִי֙ מִנְּשִׁיק֣וֹת פִּ֔יהוּ כִּֽי־טוֹבִ֥ים דֹּדֶ֖יךָ מִיָּֽיִן׃

*Word for word:* let him.kiss.me from the.kisses his.mouth his (dm) \[are\].good love(s) your more than.wine

*JPS 1917:* Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth — for thy love is better than wine.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5390/): 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).