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title: אֶגְרֹף — fist · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אֶגְרֹף (106), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: fist. BDB 1906: fist. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אֶגְרֹף

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«אֶגְרֹף» in the Tanakh dictionary: **fist** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 2 times · **Key:** 106 · **BDB:** אֶגְרֹף²

### Glosses

a.fist (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

fist [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/106/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

fist [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/106/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] fist (𝔊 πνγμή, so 𝔙; but 𝔗 club, staff(?), \& so SS, cf. especially Ex 21:18;—NH אֶגְרוֹף)—וִהִכָּה אִישׁ אֶת־רֵעֵהוּ בְּאֶבֶן אוֹ בְאֶגְרֹ֑ף Ex 21:18; (cstr.) לְהַכּוֹת בְּאֶגְרֹף רֶ֑שַׁע Is 58:4.

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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 (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אֶגְרֹף» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/106/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Exodus 21:18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.21.18/)

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וְכִֽי־יְרִיבֻ֣ן אֲנָשִׁ֔ים וְהִכָּה־אִישׁ֙ אֶת־רֵעֵ֔הוּ בְּאֶ֖בֶן א֣וֹ בְאֶגְרֹ֑ף וְלֹ֥א יָמ֖וּת וְנָפַ֥ל לְמִשְׁכָּֽב׃

*Word for word:* and (dm) they will.quarrel men and he.will.strike anyone (et) neighbor his with a.stone or with a.fist and not he.will.die and he.will.fall to a.bed

*JPS 1917:* And if men contend, and one smite the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keep his bed;

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[Isaiah 58:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.58.4/)

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הֵ֣ן לְרִ֤יב וּמַצָּה֙ תָּצ֔וּמוּ וּלְהַכּ֖וֹת בְּאֶגְרֹ֣ף רֶ֑שַׁע לֹא־תָצ֣וּמוּ כַיּ֔וֹם לְהַשְׁמִ֥יעַ בַּמָּר֖וֹם קוֹלְכֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* there! for strife and contention you.fast and to strike with a.fist of.wickedness not you.fast like this day to make.heard in the height\[s\] voice your

*JPS 1917:* Behold, ye fast for strife and contention, and to smite with the fist of wickedness; ye fast not this day so as to make your voice to be heard on high.

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