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# תֹּאֲנָה

Biblical Hebrew

**opportunity** — 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

opportunity [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/lemma_3a_5ea_5b9_5bc_5d0_5b2_5e0_5b8_5d4/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תֹּאֲנָה: n.f. opportunity [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/lemma_3a_5ea_5b9_5bc_5d0_5b2_5e0_5b8_5d4/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. opportunity, i.e. ground of quarrel; of Samson, sq. מִן Ju 14:4.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (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: an occasion (1).

## In the verses

[Judges 14:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.14.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.14.4/#tree)

וְאָבִ֨יו וְאִמּ֜וֹ לֹ֣א יָדְע֗וּ כִּ֤י מֵיְהוָה֙ הִ֔יא כִּי־תֹאֲנָ֥ה הֽוּא־מְבַקֵּ֖שׁ מִפְּלִשְׁתִּ֑ים וּבָעֵ֣ת הַהִ֔יא פְּלִשְׁתִּ֖ים מֹשְׁלִ֥ים בְּיִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃פ

*Word for word:* and father his and mother his not they.knew (dm).that \[was\].from Yahweh it (dm) an.occasion he \[was\].seeking from.\[the\] Philistines and at the time (the) that \[the\].Philistines \[were\].ruling over Israel

*JPS 1917:* But his father and his mother knew not that it was of the LORD; for he sought an occasion against the Philistines. Now at that time the Philistines had rule over Israel.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5ea_5b9_5bc_5d0_5b2_5e0_5b8_5d4.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/lemma_3a_5ea_5b9_5bc_5d0_5b2_5e0_5b8_5d4/): 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).