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# עִיט

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5860

**dart greedily** — 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

dart greedily [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5860/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עִיט²: vb.denom. dart greedily [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5860/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb.denom. dart greedily (like a bird of prey);— Impf. 3 ms. וַיַּ֫עַט Qr (Kt erron. ויעשׂ) 1 S 14:32 and the people darted greedily upon the spoil (אֶל־הַשָּׁלָל), so 2 ms. וַתַּ֫עַט 15:19 (on forms v. Ges§ 72 ff.).

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 (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 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: did you rush? (1); he shouted (1); it rushed (1).

## In the verses

[1 Samuel 15:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.15.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.15.19/#tree)

וְלָ֥מָּה לֹא־שָׁמַ֖עְתָּ בְּק֣וֹל יְהוָ֑ה וַתַּ֙עַט֙ אֶל־הַשָּׁלָ֔ל וַתַּ֥עַשׂ הָרַ֖ע בְּעֵינֵ֥י יְהוָֽה׃ס

*Word for word:* and why? not did.you.listen to the.voice of.Yahweh and did.you.rush? to the plunder and did.you.do? the evil in the.eyes of.Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* Wherefore then didst thou not hearken to the voice of the LORD, but didst fly upon the spoil, and didst that which was evil in the sight of the LORD?'

[1 Samuel 14:32](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.14.32/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.14.32/#tree)

וַיַּ֤עַט הָעָם֙ אֶל־הַשָּׁלָ֔ל וַיִּקְח֨וּ צֹ֧אן וּבָקָ֛ר וּבְנֵ֥י בָקָ֖ר וַיִּשְׁחֲטוּ־אָ֑רְצָה וַיֹּ֥אכַל הָעָ֖ם עַל־הַדָּֽם׃

*Word for word:* and it.rushed the people to the plunder and they.took sheep and cattle and young.ones of.\[the\].herd and they.slaughtered.\[them\] ground to.\[the\] and it.ate.\[them\] the people with the blood

*JPS 1917:* And the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew them on the ground; and the people did eat them with the blood.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5860.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5860/): 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).