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# עַצְמוֹן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6111

**Azmon** — 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

Azmon [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6111/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עַצְמוֹן: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6111/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. Ασε(λ)μωνα, on extreme S. border of Canaan, Nu 34:5, c. ה loc. עַצְמֹ֫נָה v 4, עַצְמ֫וֹנָה Jos 15:4.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: to (2); Azmon (1).

## In the verses

[Numbers 34:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.34.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.34.5/#tree)

וְנָסַ֧ב הַגְּב֛וּל מֵעַצְמ֖וֹן נַ֣חְלָה מִצְרָ֑יִם וְהָי֥וּ תוֹצְאֹתָ֖יו הַיָּֽמָּה׃

*Word for word:* and it.will.turn the border from Azmon the.wadi to of.Egypt and they.will.be extremities its to the sea

*JPS 1917:* and the border shall turn about from Azmon unto the Brook of Egypt, and the goings out thereof shall be at the Sea.

[Joshua 15:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.4/#tree)

וְעָבַ֣ר עַצְמ֗וֹנָה וְיָצָא֙ נַ֣חַל מִצְרַ֔יִם וְהָי֛וּ תֹּצְא֥וֹת הַגְּב֖וּל יָ֑מָּה זֶה־יִהְיֶ֥ה לָכֶ֖ם גְּב֥וּל נֶֽגֶב׃

*Word for word:* and it.passes.on to Azmon and it.goes.out the.wadi of.Egypt and they.are the.extremities of the.territory westward this it.will.be for you border of.\[the\].south

*JPS 1917:* And it passed along to Azmon, and went out at the Brook of Egypt; and the goings out of the border were at the sea; this shall be your south border.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6111/): 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).