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# תְּעוּדָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8584

**testimony** — used 3 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

testimony [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8584/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תְּעוּדָה: n.f. testimony, attestation [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8584/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. testimony, attestation;— testimony, prophet. injunction, ‖ תּוֹרָה Is 8:16, 20. attestation, Ru 4:7 (\> fixed usage BuhlLex).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 2 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 (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[the\] testimony (1); attestation (1); testimony (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 8:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.8.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.8.16/#tree)

צ֖וֹר תְּעוּדָ֑ה חֲת֥וֹם תּוֹרָ֖ה בְּלִמֻּדָֽי׃

*Word for word:* bind.up \[the\].testimony seal.up \[the\].instruction among my disciples

*JPS 1917:* 'Bind up the testimony, seal the instruction among My disciples.'

[Isaiah 8:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.8.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.8.20/#tree)

לְתוֹרָ֖ה וְלִתְעוּדָ֑ה אִם־לֹ֤א יֹֽאמְרוּ֙ כַּדָּבָ֣ר הַזֶּ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֥ר אֵֽין־ל֖וֹ שָֽׁחַר׃

*Word for word:* to.\[the\] instruction and to.\[the\] testimony if not they.will.speak according to the.manner (the) this that there.\[is\].not for it dawn

*JPS 1917:* for instruction and for testimony?' — Surely they will speak according to this word, wherein there is no light. —

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8584/): 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).