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# עָמִית

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5997

**associate** — used 12 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

associate [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5997/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עָמִית: n.m. associate, fellow, relation [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5997/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Lv 19:17; 25:15 associate, fellow, relation (perhaps orig. f. abstr. association, cf. פֶּחָה);—always sf.: גֶּבֶר עֲמִיתִי Zc 13:7 a man (who is) my fellow; elsewhere only Lv: עֲמִיתוֹ 5:21(×2); recipr. אִישׁ בַּעֲמִיתוֹ 19:11; 24:19, cf. 25:17; עֲמִיתְךָ 18:20, עֲמִיתֶ֑ךָ 19:15, 17; 25:14(×2), 15.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: citizen (5); fellow (2); his fellow (2).

## In the verses

[Leviticus 19:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.19.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.19.11/#tree)

לֹ֖א תִּגְנֹ֑בוּ וְלֹא־תְכַחֲשׁ֥וּ וְלֹֽא־תְשַׁקְּר֖וּ אִ֥ישׁ בַּעֲמִיתֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* not you.will.steal and not you.will.deceive and not you.will.deal.falsely anyone with his.fellow citizen

*JPS 1917:* Ye shall not steal; neither shall ye deal falsely, nor lie one to another.

[Leviticus 18:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.18.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.18.20/#tree)

וְאֶל־אֵ֙שֶׁת֙ עֲמִֽיתְךָ֔ לֹא־תִתֵּ֥ן שְׁכָבְתְּךָ֖ לְזָ֑רַע לְטָמְאָה־בָֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* and to the.wife your.fellow.citizen your not you.will.give copulation your for seed to be.unclean by her

*JPS 1917:* And thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour's wife, to defile thyself with her.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5997/): 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).