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# עָבַשׁ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5685

**shrivel** — 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

shrivel [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5685/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עָבַשׁ: vb. shrivel [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5685/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. shrivel (cf. Arabic عَبَسَ contract (especially face), frown);— Pf. 3 mpl. עָֽבְשׁוּ פְרֻדוֹת Jo 1:17 the grains have shrivelled (cf. Dr Now).

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 (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: they have shriveled (1).

## In the verses

[Joel 1:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOL.1.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOL.1.17/#tree)

עָבְשׁ֣וּ פְרֻד֗וֹת תַּ֚חַת מֶגְרְפֹ֣תֵיהֶ֔ם נָשַׁ֙מּוּ֙ אֹֽצָר֔וֹת נֶהֶרְס֖וּ מַמְּגֻר֑וֹת כִּ֥י הֹבִ֖ישׁ דָּגָֽן׃

*Word for word:* they.have.shriveled \[the\].seeds under shovels their they.are.desolate \[the\].storehouses they.have.been.torn.down \[the\].granaries (dm) it.has.dried.up \[the\].grain

*JPS 1917:* The grains shrivel under their hoes; the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5685.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5685/): 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).