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# עַוָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5755

**Ava** — used 3 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

Ava [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5755/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עַוָּה²: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5755/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. city conquered by Assyrians;—עַוָּה 2 K 17:24 (van d. H. עַוָּא) = עִוָּה 18:34; 19:13 = Is 37:13; 𝔊 Αια(ν), Ανα, and (2 K 19:13) Ουδου, A Αυτα, 𝔊L Αιναγ, etc.; site in N. Syria WklAlttest. Unters. 102 f. Benz; SachauZA xii (1897), 48 proposes Emma (Tab. Pent.) = Ἴμμα Ptol v. 15(×2), mod. ʿImm betw. Antioch and Aleppo.—i. עַוָּה v. sub I. עוה.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Ivvah (3).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 37:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.37.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.37.13/#tree)

אַיֵּ֤ה מֶֽלֶךְ־חֲמָת֙ וּמֶ֣לֶךְ אַרְפָּ֔ד וּמֶ֖לֶךְ לָעִ֣יר סְפַרְוָ֑יִם הֵנַ֖ע וְעִוָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* where? \[is\].the.king of.Hamath and the.king of.Arpad and the.king of.Lair Sepharvaim Hena and Ivvah

*JPS 1917:* Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah?'

[2 Kings 19:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.19.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.19.13/#tree)

אַיּ֤וֹ מֶֽלֶךְ־חֲמָת֙ וּמֶ֣לֶךְ אַרְפָּ֔ד וּמֶ֖לֶךְ לָעִ֣יר סְפַרְוָ֑יִם הֵנַ֖ע וְעִוָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* where.\[is\] he? the.king of.Hamath and the.king of.Arpad and the.king of.Lair Sepharvaim Hena and Ivvah

*JPS 1917:* Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah?'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5755.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5755/): 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).