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# עַוִּים

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5757

**Avim** — 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

Avim [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5757/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עַוִּים: n.pr. gent. loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5757/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr. gent. הָע׳ people on SW. coast of Mediterr. before the כַּפְתֹּרִים (q.v.) came Dt 2:23, and remaining thereafter Jos 13:3 (D2), 𝔊 Ευαιοι. loc. הָע׳ city in Benj. Jos 18:23 (= הָעַי?) 𝔊 Αιειν, Αυειμ.—Vid. also \[עַוִּי\] supr.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 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 (7 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Avvites (2); Avvite\[s\] (1).

## In the verses

[Deuteronomy 2:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.2.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.2.23/#tree)

וְהָֽעַוִּ֛ים הַיֹּשְׁבִ֥ים בַּחֲצֵרִ֖ים עַד־עַזָּ֑ה כַּפְתֹּרִים֙ הַיֹּצְאִ֣ים מִכַּפְתּ֔וֹר הִשְׁמִידֻ֖ם וַיֵּשְׁב֥וּ תַחְתָּֽם׃

*Word for word:* and the Avvites \[who were\].dwelling in villages to Gaza \[the\].Caphtorites \[who\].came forth from Caphtor they destroyed.them and they.dwelt in place.of.them

*JPS 1917:* and the Avvim, that dwelt in villages as far as Gaza, the Caphtorim, that came forth out of Caphtor, destroyed them, and dwelt in their stead. —

[2 Kings 17:31](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.17.31/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.17.31/#tree)

וְהָעַוִּ֛ים עָשׂ֥וּ נִבְחַ֖ז וְאֶת־תַּרְתָּ֑ק וְהַסְפַרְוִ֗ים שֹׂרְפִ֤ים אֶת־בְּנֵיהֶם֙ בָּאֵ֔שׁ לְאַדְרַמֶּ֥לֶךְ וַֽעֲנַמֶּ֖לֶךְ אֱלֹהֵ֥י סְפַרְוָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* and the Avvites they.made Nibhaz and (et) Tartak and the Sepharvites \[were\].burning (et) children their in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech the.gods of.Sepharvaim

*JPS 1917:* and the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burnt their children in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5757.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5757/): 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).