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# תֹּמֶר

Biblical Hebrew

**palm-tree** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

palm-tree [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/lemma_3a_5ea_5b9_5bc_5de_5b6_5e8/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תֹּ֫מֶר: n.m. palm-tree, post [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/lemma_3a_5ea_5b9_5bc_5de_5b6_5e8/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. palm-tree, post;—cstr. ת׳דְּבוֹרָה Ju 4:5 palm-tree of Deborah; כְּת׳ מִקְשָׁה Je 10:5 like a post (i.e. a scare-crow cf. Bar 6:70) in a cucumber field (sim. of idol).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a scarecrow (1).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 10:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.10.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.10.5/#tree)

כְּתֹ֨מֶר מִקְשָׁ֥ה הֵ֙מָּה֙ וְלֹ֣א יְדַבֵּ֔רוּ נָשׂ֥וֹא יִנָּשׂ֖וּא כִּ֣י לֹ֣א יִצְעָ֑דוּ אַל־תִּֽירְא֤וּ מֵהֶם֙ כִּי־לֹ֣א יָרֵ֔עוּ וְגַם־הֵיטֵ֖יב אֵ֥ין אוֹתָֽם׃ס

*Word for word:* \[are\].like a.scarecrow of.a.cucumber.field they and not they.speak actually.(carry) they.are.carried (dm) not they.walk do.not be.afraid from them (dm) not they.do.harm and also doing.good there.\[is\].not them

*JPS 1917:* They are like a pillar in a garden of cucumbers, and speak not; they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them, for they cannot do evil, neither is it in them to do good.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5ea_5b9_5bc_5de_5b6_5e8.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/lemma_3a_5ea_5b9_5bc_5de_5b6_5e8/): 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).