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# עֵדָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5713

**testimony** — used 5 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

testimony [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5713/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֵדָה⁴: n.f. testimony, witness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5713/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. testimony, witness, of things (only E);—Gn 21:30; 31:52; Jos 24:27(×2) (J uses עֵד for feminine things).—i. עֵדָה v. יעד.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (11 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (8 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: witness (3); O congregation (1); a witness (1).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 6:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.6.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.6.18/#tree)

לָכֵ֖ן שִׁמְע֣וּ הַגּוֹיִ֑ם וּדְעִ֥י עֵדָ֖ה אֶת־אֲשֶׁר־בָּֽם׃

*Word for word:* therefore listen O nations and know O.congregation (et) \[that\].which \[is\].in them

*JPS 1917:* Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what is against them.

[Genesis 21:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.21.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.21.30/#tree)

וַיֹּ֕אמֶר כִּ֚י אֶת־שֶׁ֣בַע כְּבָשֹׂ֔ת תִּקַּ֖ח מִיָּדִ֑י בַּעֲבוּר֙ תִּֽהְיֶה־לִּ֣י לְעֵדָ֔ה כִּ֥י חָפַ֖רְתִּי אֶת־הַבְּאֵ֥ר הַזֹּֽאת׃

*Word for word:* and he.said (dm) (et) seven ewe-lambs you.will.take from hand my so that you.may.become for me (into).a witness (dm).that I.dug (et) the well (the) this

*JPS 1917:* And he said: 'Verily, these seven ewe-lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that it may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5713.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5713/): 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).