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# קֶשֶׁב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7182

**attentiveness** — 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

attentiveness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7182/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קֶ֫שֶב: n.m. attentiveness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7182/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. attentiveness;—קָ֑שֶׁב as sign of life 2 K 4:31,\* of a living deity 1 K 18:29; as acc. cogn. וְהִקְשִׁיב קֶשֶׁב רַב־קָ֑שֶׁב Is 21:7 he shall attend an attentiveness (give close attention),—abundance of attentiveness (cf. 63:7 ψ 145:7).

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: attentiveness (3); of attentiveness (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 21:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.21.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.21.7/#tree)

וְרָ֣אָה רֶ֗כֶב צֶ֚מֶד פָּֽרָשִׁ֔ים רֶ֥כֶב חֲמ֖וֹר רֶ֣כֶב גָּמָ֑ל וְהִקְשִׁ֥יב קֶ֖שֶׁב רַב־קָֽשֶׁב׃

*Word for word:* and he.will.see a.rider a.pair of.horses a.rider of.a.donkey a.rider of.a.camel and he.will.pay.attention attentiveness greatness of.attentiveness

*JPS 1917:* And when he seeth a troop, horsemen by pairs, a troop of asses, a troop of camels, he shall hearken diligently with much heed.

[1 Kings 18:29](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.18.29/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.18.29/#tree)

וַֽיְהִי֙ כַּעֲבֹ֣ר הַֽצָּהֳרַ֔יִם וַיִּֽתְנַבְּא֔וּ עַ֖ד לַעֲל֣וֹת הַמִּנְחָ֑ה וְאֵֽין־ק֥וֹל וְאֵין־עֹנֶ֖ה וְאֵ֥ין קָֽשֶׁב׃

*Word for word:* and it.was just as.passed the noontide(s) and they.prophesied until (to).goes up the offering and there.\[was\].not a.voice and there.\[was\].not \[one.who\].answered and there.\[was\].not attentiveness

*JPS 1917:* And it was so, when midday was past, that they prophesied until the time of the offering of the evening offering; but their was neither voice, nor any to answer, nor any that regarded.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7182.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7182/): 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).