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# תָּו

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8420

**mark** — used 3 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

mark [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8420/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תָּו²: n.m. mark [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8420/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. mark;—abs. ת׳, mark on forehead, sign exemption from judgment Ez 9:4, 6; sf. תָּוִּי Jb 31:35 = my (written) mark (in attestation).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 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: mark (2); a mark (1).

## In the verses

[Job 31:35](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.31.35/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.31.35/#tree)

מִ֤י יִתֶּן־לִ֨י ׀ שֹׁ֘מֵ֤עַֽ לִ֗י הֶן־תָּ֭וִי שַׁדַּ֣י יַעֲנֵ֑נִי וְסֵ֥פֶר כָּ֝תַ֗ב אִ֣ישׁ רִיבִֽי׃

*Word for word:* who? will.he.give to me \[one.who\].listens to me here! mark my \[the\].Almighty let him.answer.me and a.document \[which\].he.had.written the.person my.case my

*JPS 1917:* Oh that I had one to hear me! — Lo, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me — and that I had the indictment which mine adversary hath written!

[Ezekiel 9:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.9.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.9.4/#tree)

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר יְהוָה֙ אֵלָ֔יו עֲבֹר֙ בְּת֣וֹךְ הָעִ֔יר בְּת֖וֹךְ יְרֽוּשָׁלִָ֑ם וְהִתְוִ֨יתָ תָּ֜ו עַל־מִצְח֣וֹת הָאֲנָשִׁ֗ים הַנֶּֽאֱנָחִים֙ וְהַנֶּ֣אֱנָקִ֔ים עַ֚ל כָּל־הַתּ֣וֹעֵב֔וֹת הַֽנַּעֲשׂ֖וֹת בְּתוֹכָֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* and he.said Yahweh to him pass in the.midst of the.city in the.midst of.Jerusalem and you.will.mark a.mark on the.foreheads of the.people \[who are\].groaning and \[who are\].groaning on all the abominations \[which are\].done in the.midst of.it

*JPS 1917:* And the LORD said unto him: 'Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that are done in the midst thereof.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8420.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8420/): 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).