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# פּוּקָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6330

**tottering** — 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

tottering [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6330/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פּוּקָה: n.f. tottering, staggering [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6330/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. tottering, staggering;—fig. for qualm of conscience 1 S 25:31 (+ מִכְשׁוֹל לֵב, v. Dr).

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 (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: staggering (1).

## In the verses

[1 Samuel 25:31](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.25.31/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.25.31/#tree)

וְלֹ֣א תִהְיֶ֣ה זֹ֣את ׀ לְךָ֡ לְפוּקָה֩ וּלְמִכְשׁ֨וֹל לֵ֜ב לַאדֹנִ֗י וְלִשְׁפָּךְ־דָּם֙ חִנָּ֔ם וּלְהוֹשִׁ֥יעַ אֲדֹנִ֖י ל֑וֹ וְהֵיטִ֤ב יְהוָה֙ לַֽאדֹנִ֔י וְזָכַרְתָּ֖ אֶת־אֲמָתֶֽךָ׃ס

*Word for word:* and not it.will.become this for you (into) staggering and (into) stumbling of.heart for lord my and.(into) pouring out of.blood without.cause and to deliver lord my (to) himself and he.will.do.good Yahweh to lord my and you.will.remember (et) maidservant your

*JPS 1917:* that this shall be no stumbling-block unto thee, nor offence of heart unto my lord, either that thou hast shed blood without cause, or that my lord hath found redress for himself. And when the LORD shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember thy handmaid.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6330.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6330/): 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).