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# תִּקְוָה

Biblical Hebrew

**cord** — 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

cord [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/lemma_3a_5ea_5b4_5bc_5e7_5b0_5d5_5b8_5d4/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תִּקְוָה: n.f. cord [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/lemma_3a_5ea_5b4_5bc_5e7_5b0_5d5_5b8_5d4/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. cord (cf. √ ad init.);—cstr. הַשָּׁנִי (חוּט) תִּקְוַת Jos 2:18, 21.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (4 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: the cord (2).

## In the verses

[Joshua 2:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.2.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.2.21/#tree)

וַתֹּ֙אמֶר֙ כְּדִבְרֵיכֶ֣ם כֶּן־ה֔וּא וַֽתְּשַׁלְּחֵ֖ם וַיֵּלֵ֑כוּ וַתִּקְשֹׁ֛ר אֶת־תִּקְוַ֥ת הַשָּׁנִ֖י בַּחַלּֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* and she.said according to your.words \[be\].so it and she sent.them.off and they.went and she.bound (et) the.cord of the.scarlet in the window

*JPS 1917:* And she said: 'According unto your words, so be it.' And she sent them away, and they departed; and she bound the scarlet line in the window.

[Joshua 2:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.2.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.2.18/#tree)

הִנֵּ֛ה אֲנַ֥חְנוּ בָאִ֖ים בָּאָ֑רֶץ אֶת־תִּקְוַ֡ת חוּט֩ הַשָּׁנִ֨י הַזֶּ֜ה תִּקְשְׁרִ֗י בַּֽחַלּוֹן֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר הוֹרַדְתֵּ֣נוּ ב֔וֹ וְאֶת־אָבִ֨יךְ וְאֶת־אִמֵּ֜ךְ וְאֶת־אַחַ֗יִךְ וְאֵת֙ כָּל־בֵּ֣ית אָבִ֔יךְ תַּאַסְפִ֥י אֵלַ֖יִךְ הַבָּֽיְתָה׃

*Word for word:* here! we \[are\].about.to.come in the land (et) the.cord of.the.thread of the.scarlet (the) this you.will.bind in the window which you let.us.down in it and (et) father your and (et) mother your and (et) brothers your and (et) all the.household your.father your you.will.gather to yourself to the house

*JPS 1917:* Behold, when we come into the land, thou shalt bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which thou didst let us down by; and thou shalt gather unto thee into the house thy father, and thy mother, and thy brethren, and all thy father's household.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5ea_5b4_5bc_5e7_5b0_5d5_5b8_5d4.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/lemma_3a_5ea_5b4_5bc_5e7_5b0_5d5_5b8_5d4/): 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).