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# עַוָּא

Biblical Hebrew

**Avva** — 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

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

**The whole BDB entry:** v. עַוָּה.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, only a cross-reference (2 candidates); OSHB: none

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[2 Kings 17:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.17.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.17.24/#tree)

וַיָּבֵ֣א מֶֽלֶךְ־אַשּׁ֡וּר מִבָּבֶ֡ל וּ֠מִכּוּ֠תָה וּמֵעַוָּ֤א וּמֵֽחֲמָת֙ וּסְפַרְוַ֔יִם וַיֹּ֙שֶׁב֙ בְּעָרֵ֣י שֹֽׁמְר֔וֹן תַּ֖חַת בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וַיִּֽרְשׁוּ֙ אֶת־שֹׁ֣מְר֔וֹן וַיֵּֽשְׁב֖וּ בְּעָרֶֽיהָ׃

*Word for word:* and he.brought.\[people\] the.king of.Assyria from Babylon and from Cuthah and from Avva and from Hamath and Sepharvaim and he.caused.\[them\].to.dwell in the.cities of.Samaria in.place.of the.people of.Israel and they.took.possession.of (et) Samaria and they.dwelt in cities its

*JPS 1917:* And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Avva, and from Hamath and Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel; and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e2_5b7_5d5_5b8_5bc_5d0.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b7_5d5_5b8_5bc_5d0/): 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).