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# עָגַב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5689

**have inordinate affection** — used 7 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

have inordinate affection [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5689/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עָגַב: vb. have inordinate affection, lust [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5689/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. have inordinate affection, lust (cf. Arabic عَجِبَ wonder, admire, عَجِيبٌ beloved; and (on sens. obsc. in NH) LevyNHWB iii. 616);— Pf. 3 fs. עָֽגְבָה Ez 23:7, 9, 12; Impf. 3 fs. וַתַּעְגַּב v 5, + v 16 Kt (Qr וַתַּעְגְּבָה), וַתַּעְגְּבַה v 20 (Ew§ 191 c Ol§ 228 b); Pt. pl. עֹגְבִים Je 4:30;—lust after (עַל־), only in fig. of relations of Samaria and Jerus. (personif.) with foreigners Ez 23:5, 9, 12, 16, 20, so c. acc. v 7; pt. as subst. paramours Je 4:30.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 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: she (2); she lusted (2); lovers (1).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 23:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.23.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.23.5/#tree)

וַתִּ֥זֶן אָהֳלָ֖ה תַּחְתָּ֑י וַתַּעְגַּב֙ עַֽל־מְאַהֲבֶ֔יהָ אֶל־אַשּׁ֖וּר קְרוֹבִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and she.acted.as.a.prostitute Oholah under me and she.lusted on lovers her to Assyria \[were\].warriors

*JPS 1917:* And Oholah played the harlot when she was Mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians, warriors,

[Ezekiel 23:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.23.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.23.9/#tree)

לָכֵ֥ן נְתַתִּ֖יהָ בְּיַד־מְאַֽהֲבֶ֑יהָ בְּיַד֙ בְּנֵ֣י אַשּׁ֔וּר אֲשֶׁ֥ר עָגְבָ֖ה עֲלֵיהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* therefore I gave.her in the.hand of her.lovers in the.hand of.the.people of.Assyria whom she.had.lusted on them

*JPS 1917:* Wherefore I delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5689.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5689/): 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).