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# עָבַת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5686

**wind** — 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

wind [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5686/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עָבַת: vb. wind, weave [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5686/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. wind, weave (cf. derivatives);—Impf. 3 mpl. sf. וַיְעַבְּתוּהָ Mi 7:3 and (so) they wind it (or weave it; i.e. mischief); so Hi Che GASm, but dub.; Ew reads עָבַט = twist, pervert (cp. Jo 2:7, but v. עבט), We וַיְעַוְּתוּהָ = id., cf. Now (?), Dr.

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 (3 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Micah 7:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.7.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.7.3/#tree)

עַל־הָרַ֤ע כַּפַּ֙יִם֙ לְהֵיטִ֔יב הַשַּׂ֣ר שֹׁאֵ֔ל וְהַשֹּׁפֵ֖ט בַּשִׁלּ֑וּםוְהַגָּד֗וֹל דֹּבֵ֨ר הַוַּ֥ת נַפְשׁ֛וֹ ה֖וּא וַֽיְעַבְּתֽוּהָ׃

*Word for word:* \[are\].on (the) evil both.hands to do.\[it\].well the official \[is\].asking and the judge for (the) bribe and the.great \[person\] \[is\].speaking the.desire his.self his he and they weave.it

*JPS 1917:* Their hands are upon that which is evil to do it diligently; the prince asketh, and the judge is ready for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth the evil desire of his soul; thus they weave it together.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5686.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5686/): 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).