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# עָמַר

Biblical Hebrew

**deal tyrannically** — used 2 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

deal tyrannically [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b8_5de_5b7_5e8/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עָמַר: vb. deal tyrannically [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b8_5de_5b7_5e8/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. deal tyrannically with (ב) (Arabic غَمِرَ cherish enmity, rancour, malice, iii. plunge into a conflict, غِمْرٌ rancour, malice);—Pf. 3 ms. וְהִתְעַמֶּר־ consec. Dt 24:7; Impf. 2 ms. תִּתְעַמֵּר 21:14.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: he will treat as a slave (1); you will treat as a slave (1).

## In the verses

[Deuteronomy 21:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.21.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.21.14/#tree)

וְהָיָ֞ה אִם־לֹ֧א חָפַ֣צְתָּ בָּ֗הּ וְשִׁלַּחְתָּהּ֙ לְנַפְשָׁ֔הּ וּמָכֹ֥ר לֹא־תִמְכְּרֶ֖נָּה בַּכָּ֑סֶף לֹא־תִתְעַמֵּ֣ר בָּ֔הּ תַּ֖חַת אֲשֶׁ֥ר עִנִּיתָֽהּ׃ס

*Word for word:* and it.will.be if not you.delight in her and you will.let.her.go for self her and certainly.(sell) not you will.sell.her for (the) money not you.will.treat.as.a.slave (in) her because that you have.humiliated.her

*JPS 1917:* And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt let her go whither she will; but thou shalt not sell her at all for money, thou shalt not deal with her as a slave, because thou hast humbled her.

[Deuteronomy 24:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.24.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.24.7/#tree)

כִּי־יִמָּצֵ֣א אִ֗ישׁ גֹּנֵ֨ב נֶ֤פֶשׁ מֵאֶחָיו֙ מִבְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וְהִתְעַמֶּר־בּ֖וֹ וּמְכָר֑וֹ וּמֵת֙ הַגַּנָּ֣ב הַה֔וּא וּבִֽעַרְתָּ֥ הָרָ֖ע מִקִּרְבֶּֽךָ׃

*Word for word:* (dm) he.will.be.found anyone stealing a.person of countrymen his any of.the.people of.Israel and he.will.treat.as.a.slave (in) him and he will.sell.him and he.will.die the thief (the) that and you.will.remove the evil from midst your

*JPS 1917:* If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and he deal with him as a slave, and sell him; then that thief shall die; so shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e2_5b8_5de_5b7_5e8.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b8_5de_5b7_5e8/): 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).