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# עוּגָב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5748

**reed-instrument** — used 4 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

reed-instrument [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5748/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עוּגָב: n.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5748/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. a musical instr. (poss. from above √, because of sensuous or appealing tones);—Gn 4:21 (J; + כִּנּוֹר), Jb 21:12 (‖ תֹּף, כִּנּוֹר), ψ 150:4 (+ מִנִּים), sf. עֻגָבִי Jb 30:31 (‖ כִּנֹּרִי);—according to 𝔗 a reed-pipe or flute (אַבּוּבָא), 𝔙 a Pan’s pipe (organon, made up of several reeds together); NowArch. i. 277 BenzArch. 276 think of bag-pipe (= סוּמְפֹּנְיָה Dn 3:5, 10, 15), cf. also in Weψψ Eng.Tr. 219; \> a stringed instr. 𝔊 𝔖 (Gn 4:21).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 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: flute (3); of a flute (1).

## In the verses

[Job 21:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.21.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.21.12/#tree)

יִ֭שְׂאוּ כְּתֹ֣ף וְכִנּ֑וֹר וְ֝יִשְׂמְח֗וּ לְק֣וֹל עוּגָֽב׃

*Word for word:* they.lift according to.tambourine and harp and they.rejoice to.\[the\] sound of.a.flute

*JPS 1917:* They sing to the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.

[Job 30:31](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.30.31/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.30.31/#tree)

וַיְהִ֣י לְ֭אֵבֶל כִּנֹּרִ֑י וְ֝עֻגָבִ֗י לְק֣וֹל בֹּכִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and it.has.become (into) mourning harp my and flute my (into).\[the\] sound of.\[those.who\].weep

*JPS 1917:* Therefore is my harp turned to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of them that weep.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5748/): 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).