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# עָזַק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5823

**dig about** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

dig about [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5823/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עָזַק: vb. dig about [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5823/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. dig about (NH id., also surround, enclose; Aramaic עִזְקְתָא, ܥܶܙܘܬܳܐ, ܥܶܙܰܘܬܳܐ ring; Arabic عَزَقَ cleave or furrow the earth with implement مِعْزَقَةٌ Ethiopic ዐዘቅት well, cistern);— Impf. 3 ms. sf. וַיְעַזְּקֵהוּ Is 5:2 (intens.) and he dug it carefully about.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Isaiah 5:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.5.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.5.2/#tree)

וַֽיְעַזְּקֵ֣הוּ וַֽיְסַקְּלֵ֗הוּ וַיִּטָּעֵ֙הוּ֙ שֹׂרֵ֔ק וַיִּ֤בֶן מִגְדָּל֙ בְּתוֹכ֔וֹ וְגַם־יֶ֖קֶב חָצֵ֣ב בּ֑וֹ וַיְקַ֛ו לַעֲשׂ֥וֹת עֲנָבִ֖ים וַיַּ֥עַשׂ בְּאֻשִֽׁים׃

*Word for word:* and he dug.it and he cleared.it.of.stones and he planted.it a.choice.vine and he.built a.tower in the.middle of.it and also a.wine-vat he.dug.out in it and he.waited to produce grapes and it.produced wild.grapes

*JPS 1917:* And he digged it, and cleared it of stones, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also hewed out a vat therein; and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5823.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5823/): 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).