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# עָרַג

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6165

**long for** — 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

long for [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6165/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עָרַג: vb. long [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6165/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. long for (cf. Arabic عَرَجَ ascend, ii. bend, incline toward (على); عَرِيجٌ high, elevated; Ethiopic ዐርገ ascend; NH עֲרוּגָה = BH);— Impf. 3 fs. תַּעֲרֹג ψ 42:2 (of stag, c. עַל rei in sim.); c. אֶל, of longing for God v 2 (subj. נַפְשִׁי), so תַּעֲרוֹג Jo 1:20 (of beasts, craving water).

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 (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: it pants (2); \[which\] it pants (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 42:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.42.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.42.2/#tree)

כְּאַיָּ֗ל תַּעֲרֹ֥ג עַל־אֲפִֽיקֵי־מָ֑יִם כֵּ֤ן נַפְשִׁ֨י תַעֲרֹ֖ג אֵלֶ֣יךָ אֱלֹהִֽים׃

*Word for word:* like a.deer \[which\].it.pants towards channels of.water so being my it.pants to you O.God

*JPS 1917:* As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after Thee, O God.

[Joel 1:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOL.1.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOL.1.20/#tree)

גַּם־בַּהֲמ֥וֹת שָׂדֶ֖ה תַּעֲר֣וֹג אֵלֶ֑יךָ כִּ֤י יָֽבְשׁוּ֙ אֲפִ֣יקֵי מָ֔יִם וְאֵ֕שׁ אָכְלָ֖ה נְא֥וֹת הַמִּדְבָּֽר׃פ

*Word for word:* also \[the\].animals of.\[the\].field it.pants to you (dm) they.have.dried.up \[the\].channels of.water and fire it.has.consumed the.pastures of the.wilderness

*JPS 1917:* Yea, the beasts of the field pant unto Thee; for the water brooks are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6165.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6165/): 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).