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# פּוּשׁ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6335

**spring about** — used 4 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

spring about [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6335/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פּוּשׁ: vb. spring about [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6335/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. appar. spring about, Pf. 3 pl. consec. וּפָשׁוּ פָּרָשָׁיו Hb 1:8 (but prob. del. וּפָשׁוּ as dittogr. v. Now); 2 mpl. consec. וּפִשְׁתֶּם Mal 3:20, Impf. 2 mpl. תָּפוּשׁוּ Je 50:11 Qr (so 𝔊; \> Kt תפושׁי), in both, sim. of gambolling calves.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: they are scattered (1); they paw the ground (1); you are skipping about (1).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 50:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.50.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.50.11/#tree)

כִּ֤י תִשְׂמְחוּ֙ כִּ֣י תַֽעֲלְז֔וּשֹׁסֵ֖י נַחֲלָתִ֑י כִּ֤י תָפ֙וּשׁוּ֙ כְּעֶגְלָ֣ה דָשָׁ֔ה וְתִצְהֲל֖וּ כָּאֲבִּרִֽים׃

*Word for word:* (dm) you.are.rejoicing (dm) you.are.gloating O.\[you.who\].plunder inheritance (of).my (dm) you.are.skipping.about like a.heifer threshing and you.are.neighing like.(the) mighty \[horses\]

*JPS 1917:* Because ye are glad, because ye rejoice, O ye that plunder My heritage, because ye gambol as a heifer at grass, and neigh as strong horses;

[Nahum 3:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/NAM.3.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/NAM.3.18/#tree)

נָמ֤וּ רֹעֶ֙יךָ֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ אַשּׁ֔וּר יִשְׁכְּנ֖וּ אַדִּירֶ֑יךָ נָפֹ֧שׁוּ עַמְּךָ֛ עַל־הֶהָרִ֖ים וְאֵ֥ין מְקַבֵּֽץ׃

*Word for word:* they.are.slumbering shepherds your O.king of.Assyria they.settle.down your nobles they.are.scattered people your on the mountains and there.\[is\].not \[one.who\].gathers

*JPS 1917:* Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria, thy worthies are at rest; thy people are scattered upon the mountains, and there is none to gather them.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6335.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6335/): 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).