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# תַּאֲנָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8385

**occasion** — 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

occasion [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8385/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תַּאֲנָה: n.f. occasion, time of copulation [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8385/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. occasion, time of copulation; sf. תַּאֲנָתָהּ i.e. of wild ass Je 2:24.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 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: heat (1).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 2:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.2.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.2.24/#tree)

פֶּ֣רֶה ׀ לִמֻּ֣ד מִדְבָּ֗ר בְּאַוַּ֤ת נַפְשָׁהּ֙ שָׁאֲפָ֣ה ר֔וּחַ תַּאֲנָתָ֖הּ מִ֣י יְשִׁיבֶ֑נָּה כָּל־מְבַקְשֶׁ֙יהָ֙ לֹ֣א יִיעָ֔פוּ בְּחָדְשָׁ֖הּ יִמְצָאֽוּנְהָ׃

*Word for word:* a.wild.donkey accustomed.to (of).a.wilderness in the.desire its.self her it.pants.for \[the\].wind heat its who? will he.turn.it.back all \[those who\].seek.it not they.will.grow.weary in month its they will.find.it

*JPS 1917:* A wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind in her desire; her lust, who can hinder it? All they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8385.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8385/): 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).