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# עָר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6145

**thine adversary** — 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

thine adversary [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6145/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עָר²: n.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6145/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. only 2 times: עָרֶ֑ךָ 1 S 28:16 (v. Dr); read צָרֶ֑ךָ thine adversary Klo HPS (al. as altern. with foll.) \>עִם רֵעֶ֑ךָ 𝔊 𝔖 𝔗 Th Bu Kit (?) al.; עָרֶיךָ ψ 139:20 is very dub.; Hup עָלֶיךָ, Ol Che al. שְׁמֶ֑ךָ; Bae leaves untranslated.

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 (27 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (20 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Psalms 139:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.139.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.139.20/#tree)

אֲשֶׁ֣ר יֹ֭אמְרֻךָ לִמְזִמָּ֑ה נָשֻׂ֖א לַשָּׁ֣וְא עָרֶֽיךָ׃

*Word for word:* \[those\].who they speak.of.you to wickedness they.lift.up to (the) falsehood enemies your

*JPS 1917:* Who utter Thy name with wicked thought, they take it for falsehood, even Thine enemies —

[1 Samuel 28:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.28.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.28.16/#tree)

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר שְׁמוּאֵ֔ל וְלָ֖מָּה תִּשְׁאָלֵ֑נִי וַיהוָ֛ה סָ֥ר מֵעָלֶ֖יךָ וַיְהִ֥י עָרֶֽךָ׃

*Word for word:* and he.said Samuel and why? do you.ask.me and Yahweh he.has.turned.aside from with you and he.has.become enemy your

*JPS 1917:* And Samuel said: 'Wherefore then dost thou ask of me, seeing the LORD is departed from thee, and is become thine adversary?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6145.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6145/): 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).