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# תַּנְחוּמִים

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8575

**consolation** — used 5 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

consolation [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8575/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תַּנְחוּם: n.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8575/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. ψ 94:19 consolation, only in pl. (usually abstr. and intensive) תַּנְחוּמִים Je 16:7; sf. תַּנִחוּמֶיךָ ψ 94:19; תַּנְחֻמֶיהָ Is 66:11; תַּנְחוּמוֹת Jb 15:11; תַּנְחוּמֹתֵיכֶם 21:2.

Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: consolations (2); \[are\] the consolations (1); its consolations (1).

## In the verses

[Job 21:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.21.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.21.2/#tree)

שִׁמְע֣וּ שָׁ֭מוֹעַ מִלָּתִ֑י וּתְהִי־זֹ֝֗את תַּנְח֥וּמֹֽתֵיכֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* listen.to carefully.(listen) speech my and let.it.be this consolations your

*JPS 1917:* Hear diligently my speech; and let this be your consolations.

[Job 15:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.15.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.15.11/#tree)

הַמְעַ֣ט מִ֭מְּךָ תַּנְחֻמ֣וֹת אֵ֑ל וְ֝דָבָ֗ר לָאַ֥ט עִמָּֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* \[too\] little? for you \[are\].the.consolations of.God and a.word to gentleness with you

*JPS 1917:* Are the consolations of God too small for thee, and the word that dealeth gently with thee?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8575.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8575/): 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).