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# עוּז

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5756

**take refuge** — used 6 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

take refuge [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5756/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עוּז: vb. take seek refuge [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5756/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. take or seek refuge (Arabic عوذ, عَاذَ take refuge, seek protection, مَعَاذٌ a refuge);— Inf. cstr. לָעוֹז בְּמָעוֹז Is 30:2 (‖ לַחְסוֹת בְּ). bring into safety, Pf. 3 mpl. הֵעִ֫יזוּ Is 10:31, obj. om., and so Imv. mpl. הָעִ֫יזוּ Je 4:6, הָעִ֫זוּ מִקֶּרֶב 6:1; c. acc., ms. הָעֵז Ex 9:19.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: bring to safety (3); he sought safety (1); reach safety (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 10:31](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.10.31/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.10.31/#tree)

נָדְדָ֖ה מַדְמֵנָ֑ה יֹשְׁבֵ֥י הַגֵּבִ֖ים הֵעִֽיזוּ׃

*Word for word:* it.has.fled Madmenah the.inhabitants of.(the) Gebim they.have.brought.to.safety

*JPS 1917:* Madmenah is in mad flight; the inhabitants of Gebim flee to cover.

[Jeremiah 4:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.4.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.4.6/#tree)

שְׂאוּ־נֵ֣ס צִיּ֔וֹנָה הָעִ֖יזוּ אַֽל־תַּעֲמֹ֑דוּ כִּ֣י רָעָ֗ה אָנֹכִ֛י מֵבִ֥יא מִצָּפ֖וֹן וְשֶׁ֥בֶר גָּדֽוֹל׃

*Word for word:* lift.up a.standard to Zion bring.to.safety do.not stand.still (dm) calamity I \[am\].about.to.bring from.\[the\] north and destruction great

*JPS 1917:* Set up a standard toward Zion; put yourselves under covert, stay not; for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5756.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5756/): 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).