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# עֲגָבִים

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5690

**sensuous** — 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

sensuous [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5690/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עָגָב: sensuous) love [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5690/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] (sensuous) love (on form cf. LagBN 143);—only pl. intens. שִׁיר עֲגָבִים Ez 33:32 thou art to them as a love-song.—For עֲגָבִים v 31 read כְּזָבִים 𝔊 𝔖 Co Berthol Toy.

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

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 33:32](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.33.32/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.33.32/#tree)

וְהִנְּךָ֤ לָהֶם֙ כְּשִׁ֣יר עֲגָבִ֔ים יְפֵ֥ה ק֖וֹל וּמֵטִ֣ב נַגֵּ֑ן וְשָֽׁמְעוּ֙ אֶת־דְּבָרֶ֔יךָ וְעֹשִׂ֥ים אֵינָ֖ם אוֹתָֽם׃

*Word for word:* and there you to them \[are\].like a.song of.lustful.desires \[one\].beautiful of.voice and \[one.who\].does.well to.play and they.hear (et) words your and.\[are\] doing not they them

*JPS 1917:* and, lo, thou art unto them as a love song of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument; so they hear thy words, but they do them not —

[Ezekiel 33:31](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.33.31/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.33.31/#tree)

וְיָב֣וֹאוּ אֵ֠לֶיךָ כִּמְבוֹא־עָ֞ם וְיֵשְׁב֤וּ לְפָנֶ֙יךָ֙ עַמִּ֔י וְשָֽׁמְעוּ֙ אֶת־דְּבָרֶ֔יךָ וְאוֹתָ֖ם לֹ֣א יַֽעֲשׂ֑וּ כִּֽי־עֲגָבִ֤ים בְּפִיהֶם֙ הֵ֣מָּה עֹשִׂ֔ים אַחֲרֵ֥י בִצְעָ֖ם לִבָּ֥ם הֹלֵֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* and they.come to you like.\[the\] coming of.a.people and they.sit before you people my and they.hear (et) words your and them not they.do (dm) lustful.desires in mouth their they \[are\].doing after gain their.unjust heart their \[is\].going

*JPS 1917:* and come unto thee as the people cometh, and sit before thee as My people, and hear thy words, but do them not — for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness;

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5690/): 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).