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# עֹופֶרֶת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5777

**lead** — used 9 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

lead [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5777/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֹפֶרֶת: n.m. lead [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5777/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Je 6:29(si vera l. Qr) lead (√ dub.; prob. foreign word; cf. 𝔗 אֲבָרָא lead, Syriac ܐܰܒܳܪܳܐ, and (as Aramaic loan-word) Arabic أَبَار \[v. Dozy\], Frä152; perhaps also Assyrian abaru, a metal, magnesite according to HilprAssyriaca i (1894), 80 ff. Hpt1b. 83);—כִּכַּר ע׳ Zc 5:7 a round weight (disc) of lead, אֶבֶן־הָעו׳ v 5; with other metals (v. בְּדִיל): עוֹ׳ Ez 22:18, 20; 27:12, הָעֹפָ֑רֶת Nu 31:22 (P); עֹפ׳ also Jb 19:24 (with which chiselled letters are filled according to Di and most; Bu reads בְּע׳ in \[a tablet of\] lead); also (as flux) Je 6:29 (reading Qr; so Gf Co; emend. Gie); עוֹ׳ in sim. Ex 15:10 (song).

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: lead (8); of lead (1).

## In the verses

[Job 19:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.19.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.19.24/#tree)

בְּעֵט־בַּרְזֶ֥ל וְעֹפָ֑רֶת לָ֝עַ֗ד בַּצּ֥וּר יֵחָצְבֽוּן׃

*Word for word:* with a.stylus of.iron and lead forever in the rock they will.be.engraved

*JPS 1917:* That with an iron pen and lead they were graven in the rock for ever!

[Exodus 15:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.15.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.15.10/#tree)

נָשַׁ֥פְתָּ בְרוּחֲךָ֖ כִּסָּ֣מוֹ יָ֑ם צָֽלֲלוּ֙ כַּֽעוֹפֶ֔רֶת בְּמַ֖יִם אַדִּירִֽים׃

*Word for word:* you.blew with breath your it covered.them \[the\].sea they.sank like (the) lead in.\[the\] waters mighty

*JPS 1917:* Thou didst blow with Thy wind, the sea covered them; they sank as lead in the mighty waters.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5777/): 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).