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# תָּנָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8566

**hire** — 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

hire [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8566/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תָּנָה: vb. hire Qal [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8566/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. hire (si vera l., akin to נתן);— Impf. 3 mpl. יִתְנוּ בַגּוֹיִם Ho 8:10 hire (allies) among the nations; Pf. 3 pl. הִתְנוּ v 9 have hired lovers.—We in both יִתְּנוּ give: v 9 give amorous favours, v 10 give (these), cp. Now Marti Harper.—הְּנָה ψ 8:2 v. נתן Qal 2 b.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 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 (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: they have hired (1); they will hire (1).

## In the verses

[Hosea 8:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.8.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.8.9/#tree)

כִּֽי־הֵ֙מָּה֙ עָל֣וּ אַשּׁ֔וּר פֶּ֖רֶא בּוֹדֵ֣ד ל֑וֹ אֶפְרַ֖יִם הִתְנ֥וּ אֲהָבִֽים

*Word for word:* (dm) they they.have.gone.up Assyria a.wild.donkey isolated to itself Ephraim they.have.hired loves

*JPS 1917:* For they are gone up to Assyria, like a wild ass alone by himself; Ephraim hath hired lovers.

[Hosea 8:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.8.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.8.10/#tree)

גַּ֛ם כִּֽי־יִתְנ֥וּ בַגּוֹיִ֖ם עַתָּ֣ה אֲקַבְּצֵ֑ם וַיָּחֵ֣לּוּ מְּעָ֔ט מִמַּשָּׂ֖א מֶ֥לֶךְ שָׂרִֽים׃

*Word for word:* also (dm) they.will.hire among the nations now I will.gather.them and they.have.begun a.few from.\[the\] burden of.a.king of.princes

*JPS 1917:* Yea, though they hire among the nations, now will I gather them up; and they begin to be minished by reason of the burden of king and princes.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8566.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8566/): 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).