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# עֲרוֹעֵר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6176

**juniper** — 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

juniper [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6176/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֲרוֹעֵר: juniper [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6176/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] prob. a tree or bush; juniper? (Arabic عَرْعَرٌ juniper (or cypress? v. Lane), so TristrNHB 358 RobBR ii. 124; on format. v. LagBN 162 BaNB 160);—עֲרוֹעֵר בַּמִּדְבָּר Je 48:6, + 17:6, where read prob. עֲרֹעֵר בָּעֲרָבָה (for MT עַרְעָר; \> Gf al. conversely, read עַרְעָר 48:6).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a juniper bush (1).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 48:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.48.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.48.6/#tree)

נֻ֖סוּ מַלְּט֣וּ נַפְשְׁכֶ֑ם וְתִֽהְיֶ֕ינָה כַּעֲרוֹעֵ֖ר בַּמִּדְבָּֽר׃

*Word for word:* flee save life your so that.they.may.be like a.juniper.bush in the wilderness

*JPS 1917:* Flee, save your lives, and be like a tamarisk in the wilderness.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6176/): 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).