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# תֹּואֲמִם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8380

**twin** — used 6 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

twin [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8380/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תּוֹאָם: n.m. twin [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8380/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. twin (NH id.; cf. Ph. n.pr.m. תאם, Gk. Θωμᾶς = δίδυμος John 20:24);—pl. abs. of two boys תּוֹמִם Gn 25:24 (Ges§ 23 f.) תְּאוֹמִים 38:27 (both J); of animals, cstr. תְּאוֹמֵי צְבִיָּה Ct 4:5, תָּאֳמֵי צ׳ 7:4.

Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: another 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: twins (6).

## In the verses

[Song of Songs 7:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.7.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.7.4/#tree)

שְׁנֵ֥י שָׁדַ֛יִךְ כִּשְׁנֵ֥י עֳפָרִ֖ים תָּאֳמֵ֥י צְבִיָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* the.two breasts your \[are\].like two fawns twins of.a.gazelle

*JPS 1917:* Thy two breasts are like two fawns that are twins of a gazelle.

[Genesis 25:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.25.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.25.24/#tree)

וַיִּמְלְא֥וּ יָמֶ֖יהָ לָלֶ֑דֶת וְהִנֵּ֥ה תוֹמִ֖ם בְּבִטְנָֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* and they.were.completed days her to give.birth and there! twins \[were\].in womb her

*JPS 1917:* And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8380.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8380/): 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).