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# תּוֹחֶלֶת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8431

**hope** — 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

hope [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8431/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תּוֹחֶ֫לֶת: n.f. hope [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8431/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. hope, abs. ת׳ Pr 13:12; cstr. id. Pr 10:28; 11:7; sf. תּוֹחַלְתִּי ψ 39:8 La 3:18; תֹּחַלְתּוֹ Jb 41:1;—hope, sq. subj. gen. Jb 41:1 Pr 10:28; 11:7 La 3:18; sq. subj. gen. + לְ ψ 39:8 (תּוֹחַלְתִּי לְךָ); alone Pr 13:12.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: hope (5); \[the\] hope (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 10:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.10.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.10.28/#tree)

תּוֹחֶ֣לֶת צַדִּיקִ֣ים שִׂמְחָ֑ה וְתִקְוַ֖ת רְשָׁעִ֣ים תֹּאבֵֽד׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].hope of.righteous.\[people\] \[is\].joy and.\[the\] hope of.wicked.\[people\] it.is.lost

*JPS 1917:* The hope of the righteous is gladness; but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.

[Proverbs 13:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.13.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.13.12/#tree)

תּוֹחֶ֣לֶת מְ֭מֻשָּׁכָה מַחֲלָה־לֵ֑ב וְעֵ֥ץ חַ֝יִּ֗ים תַּאֲוָ֥ה בָאָֽה׃

*Word for word:* hope deferred \[is\].making.sick \[the\].heart and.\[is\] a.tree of.life a.desire \[which\].comes

*JPS 1917:* Hope deferred maketh the heart sick; but desire fulfilled is a tree of life.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8431/): 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).