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# תָּמַח

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8547

**Tamah** — used 2 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

Tamah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8547/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תָּ֑מַח: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8547/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. head of a Jewish family, Ezr 2:53=Ne 7:55; 𝔊 Θεμα (Ne Ημαθ), 𝔊L Θεμαα.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 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: of Temah (2).

## In the verses

[Ezra 2:53](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.53/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.53/#tree)

בְּנֵי־בַרְק֥וֹס בְּֽנֵי־סִֽיסְרָ֖א בְּנֵי־תָֽמַח׃

*Word for word:* the.descendants of.Barkos the.descendants of.Sisera the.descendants of.Temah

*JPS 1917:* the children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Temah;

[Nehemiah 7:55](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.7.55/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.7.55/#tree)

בְּנֵי־בַרְק֥וֹס בְּֽנֵי־סִֽיסְרָ֖א בְּנֵי־תָֽמַח׃

*Word for word:* the.descendants of.Barkos the.descendants of.Sisera the.descendants of.Temah

*JPS 1917:* the children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Temah;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8547.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8547/): 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).