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# תַּיִשׁ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8495

**he-goat** — used 4 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

he-goat [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8495/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תַּ֫יִשׁ: n.m. he-goat [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8495/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. he-goat (NH id.; Arabic تَيْسٌ, Aramaic תְּיָשָׁא, תֵּישָׁא, ܬܳܝܫܳܐ id.; √ unknown);—abs. תָּ֑יִשׁ Pr 30:31; pl. תְּיֽשִׁים Gn 30:35 (J), 32:15 (E; + עִזִּים she-goats), 2 Ch 17:11.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 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: male goats (2); a male goat (1); goats (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 30:31](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.30.31/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.30.31/#tree)

זַרְזִ֣יר מָתְנַ֣יִם אוֹ־תָ֑יִשׁ וּ֝מֶ֗לֶךְ אַלְק֥וּם עִמּֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* a.rooster of.loins or a.male.goat and a.king \[who\].a.band.of.soldiers \[is\].with him

*JPS 1917:* The greyhound; the he-goat also; and the king, against whom there is no rising up.

[Genesis 32:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.32.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.32.15/#tree)

עִזִּ֣ים מָאתַ֔יִם וּתְיָשִׁ֖ים עֶשְׂרִ֑ים רְחֵלִ֥ים מָאתַ֖יִם וְאֵילִ֥ים עֶשְׂרִֽים׃

*Word for word:* female.goats two.hundred and male.goats twenty ewes two.hundred and rams twenty

*JPS 1917:* two hundred she-goats and twenty he-goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8495.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8495/): 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).