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# עַתּוּד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6260

**he-goat** — used 29 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

he-goat [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6260/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עַתּוּד: n.m. he-goat [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6260/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Gn 31:10 he-goat (NH = BH; Assyrian atudû; Arabic عَتُودٌ young he-goat; relation to above √ not clear; Thes well-developed, cp. Arabic عَتَدٌ horse fit for running (cf. √ meaning great, i.e. perhaps full-grown); according to HomNS 247 f. animal ready to fight);—only pl. עַתּוּדִים Is 1:11 + 13 times; עַתֻּדִים Gn 31:10 + 13 times; cstr. עַתּוּדֵי Is 34:6;—as property Gn 31:10, 12 Ez 27:21 Pr 27:26, food Dt 32:14; as leaders of flock Je 50:8 (sim.), hence fig. of princes and chief men Is 14:9 Ez 34:17, v. also infr.; as sacrif. victims Is 1:11 Nu 7:17 + 12 times Nu 7, ψ 66:15 and (iron.) 50:9, 13; fig. of people and princes in י׳’s great sacrifice Is 34:6; Je 51:40 (sim.), Ez 39:18, and (idea of sacrif. dropped) Zc 10:3.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 17 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: goats (25); \[the\] leaders (1); leaders (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 50:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.50.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.50.13/#tree)

הַֽ֭אוֹכַל בְּשַׂ֣ר אַבִּירִ֑ים וְדַ֖ם עַתּוּדִ֣ים אֶשְׁתֶּֽה׃

*Word for word:* do I.eat? \[the\].flesh of.mighty.\[bulls\] and.\[the\] blood of.goats do.I.drink?

*JPS 1917:* Do I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?

[Proverbs 27:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.27.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.27.26/#tree)

כְּבָשִׂ֥ים לִלְבוּשֶׁ֑ךָ וּמְחִ֥יר שָׂ֝דֶ֗ה עַתּוּדִֽים׃

*Word for word:* lambs \[are\].for clothing your and \[are.the\].price of.a.field goats

*JPS 1917:* The lambs will be for thy clothing, and the goats the price for a field.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6260.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6260/): 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).