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# תַּן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8565

**jackal** — used 14 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

jackal [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8565/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תַּן²: et. jackal [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8565/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m. et.\] f. La 4:3 jackal (so most; TrNHB 109 ff., 263 f. Shipley-CookEncy. Bib. Jackal; but wolf PostHast.DB; Dragon, cf. Che Is 13:22 and (rare) Arabic تِينَانٌ );—pl. תַּנִּים Mi 1:8 +, תַּנִּין La 4:3 (Ges§ 87 e), לְתַנּוֹת Mal 1:3 (si vera l.; 𝔊 Thes al. interpret = dwellings, Sta Now conjecturre נְאוֹת, Marti נָתַתִּי לְ);—jackal, howling mournfully in waste places, Mi 1:8; Jb 30:29 (both ‖ בְּנוֹת יַעֲנָה), Is 13:22 (‖ אִיִּים), in desert also 43:20 (‖ בְּנוֹת יַעֲנָה); deserted sites called מְעוֹן ת׳ Je 9:10; 10:22; 49:33; 51:37, נְוֵה ת׳ Is 34:13; 35:7, מְקוֹם ת׳ ψ 44:20, ת׳ מִדְבָּר Mal 1:3 (si vera l., but v. supra); ת׳ as snuffing up wind Je 14:6, giving suck La 4:3.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 14 of its verses cited, 0 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, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: jackals (7); of jackals (7).

## In the verses

[Job 30:29](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.30.29/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.30.29/#tree)

אָ֭ח הָיִ֣יתִי לְתַנִּ֑ים וְ֝רֵ֗עַ לִבְנ֥וֹת יַעֲנָֽה׃

*Word for word:* a.brother I.have.become of jackals and a.companion of daughters of.an.ostrich

*JPS 1917:* I am become a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches.

[Psalms 44:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.44.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.44.20/#tree)

כִּ֣י דִ֭כִּיתָנוּ בִּמְק֣וֹם תַּנִּ֑ים וַתְּכַ֖ס עָלֵ֣ינוּ בְצַלְמָֽוֶת׃

*Word for word:* (dm) you have.crushed.us in a.place of.jackals and you.have.covered over us with deep.darkness

*JPS 1917:* Though Thou hast crushed us into a place of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8565.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8565/): 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).