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# עָצַב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6087

**shape** — 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

shape [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6087/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עָצַב²: vb. Pi. shape, fashion [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6087/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. Pi. shape, fashion (NH Pi. stretch child into shape; BuhlLex cp. عَضَبَ cut, cut off \[whence idea of carving, fashioning\]);— Pf. יָדֶיךָ עִצְּבוּנִי וַיַּעֲשׂוּנִי Jb 10:8 thy hands shaped me, etc. Inf. cstr. לְהַעֲצִבָה Je 44:19, but rd. -בָהּ, to fashion her, i.e. make images of her (poss. denom. from עָצָב).

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 (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (8 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Job 10:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.10.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.10.8/#tree)

יָדֶ֣יךָ עִ֭צְּבוּנִי וַֽיַּעֲשׂ֑וּנִי יַ֥חַד סָ֝בִ֗יב וַֽתְּבַלְּעֵֽנִי׃

*Word for word:* hands your they formed.me and they made.me together all.around and you have.swallowed.me

*JPS 1917:* Thy hands have framed me and fashioned me together round about; yet Thou dost destroy me!

[Jeremiah 44:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.44.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.44.19/#tree)

וְכִֽי־אֲנַ֤חְנוּ מְקַטְּרִים֙ לִמְלֶ֣כֶת הַשָּׁמַ֔יִם וּלְהַסֵּ֥ךְ לָ֖הּ נְסָכִ֑ים הֲמִֽבַּלְעֲדֵ֣י אֲנָשֵׁ֗ינוּ עָשִׂ֨ינוּ לָ֤הּ כַּוָּנִים֙ לְהַ֣עֲצִבָ֔ה וְהַסֵּ֥ךְ לָ֖הּ נְסָכִֽים׃פ

*Word for word:* and (dm) we \[were\].making.smoke to the.queen of the.heavens and to pour.out to her drink.offerings ? (from) without husbands our did.we.make for her cakes to form her and to.pour.out to her drink.offerings

*JPS 1917:* And is it we that offer to the queen of heaven, and pour out drink-offerings unto her? did we make her cakes in her image, and pour out drink-offerings unto her, without our husbands?'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6087.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6087/): 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).