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# עָצֹם

Biblical Hebrew

**be vast** — 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

be vast [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b8_5e6_5b9_5dd/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עָצֹם: vb. vast, mighty, numerous Qal Hiph. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b8_5e6_5b9_5dd/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** , עָצַם vb. be vast, mighty, numerous (NH Nithp. contend strenuously, and in deriv.; Ph. in עצמת mighty deeds, עצמם bones; Arabic عَظُمَ be great in bone, or anything, عَظُمٌ bones; Ethiopic ዐፅም id.; Aramaic עִטְמָא, ܥܰܛܡܳܐ thigh);—Qal Pf. 3 ms. וְעָצַם consec. Dn 8:24; 11:23; 2 ms. עָצַמְתָּ Gn 26:16; 3 pl. עָֽצְמוּ Is 31:1 +, עָצֵ֑מוּ ψ 38:20; Impf. 3 mpl. וַיַּעַצְמוּ Ex 1:7, 20; Inf. cstr. עָצְמַת Is 47:9; sf. עָצְמוֹ Dn 8:8;— be mighty, Gn 26:16 (J; c. מִן comp.), Dn 8:8, 24; 11:23. be numerous, ‖ רַבּוּ etc., Is 31:1, בְּעָצְמַת חֲבָרַיִךְ מְאֹד 47:9; Je 5:6; 30:14, 15; Ex 1:7 (P), v 20 (J), ψ 38:20; 69:5; c. מִן comp. Je 15:8 ψ 40:6, 13; alone 139:17. Hiph. make strong, Impf. 3 ms: sf. וַיַּעֲצִימֵהוּ ψ 105:24 + מִן comp.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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 (1).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 50:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.50.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.50.17/#tree)

שֶׂ֧ה פְזוּרָ֛ה יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל אֲרָי֣וֹת הִדִּ֑יחוּ הָרִאשׁ֤וֹן אֲכָלוֹ֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ אַשּׁ֔וּר וְזֶ֤ה הָאַחֲרוֹן֙ עִצְּמ֔וֹ נְבוּכַדְרֶאצַּ֖ר מֶ֥לֶךְ בָּבֶֽל׃ס

*Word for word:* \[is\].sheep scattered Israel \[which\].lions they.have.driven.away the first he devoured.it the.king of.Assyria and this the last he gnawed.its.bones Nebuchadnezzar the.king of.Babylon

*JPS 1917:* Israel is a scattered sheep, the lions have driven him away; first the king of Assyria hath devoured him, and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e2_5b8_5e6_5b9_5dd.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b8_5e6_5b9_5dd/): 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).