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# עָשַׁת

Biblical Hebrew

**be smooth** — 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 smooth [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b8_5e9_5b7_5c1_5ea/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עָשַׁת: vb. be smooth shiny [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b8_5e9_5b7_5c1_5ea/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. be smooth or shiny (?), si vera l. (cf. עֶשֶׁת);—only Pf. 3 pl. שָֽׁמְנוּ עָֽשְׁתוּ Je 5:28 (fig.) they have grown fat, they are smooth (or shine, from fat); doubtful word, Thes conj. עָֽשְׁרוּ have grown rich (cf. 𝔊 𝔖 𝔗), so Gie (but וַיַּעֲשִׁירוּ precedes, v 27).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: they have become smooth (1).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 5:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.5.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.5.28/#tree)

שָׁמְנ֣וּ עָשְׁת֗וּ גַּ֚ם עָֽבְר֣וּ דִבְרֵי־רָ֔ע דִּ֣ין לֹא־דָ֔נוּ דִּ֥ין יָת֖וֹם וְיַצְלִ֑יחוּ וּמִשְׁפַּ֥ט אֶבְיוֹנִ֖ים לֹ֥א שָׁפָֽטוּ׃

*Word for word:* they.have.become.fat they.have.become.smooth also they.have.transgressed matters of.evil a.cause not they.have.pleaded \[the\].cause of.\[the\].fatherless and they.will.have.success and.\[the\] justice of.needy.\[people\] not they.have.judged

*JPS 1917:* They are waxen fat, they are become sleek; yea, they overpass in deeds of wickedness; they plead not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they might make it to prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e2_5b8_5e9_5b7_5c1_5ea.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b8_5e9_5b7_5c1_5ea/): 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).