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title: אֵד — mist · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אֵד (108), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: mist. BDB 1906: n.m. mist. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אֵד

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«אֵד» in the Tanakh dictionary: **mist** — 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:** 108 · **BDB:** אֵד²

### Glosses

mist (1); water (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

mist [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/108/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. mist [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/108/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. mist (deriv. dub.; Arabic آدَ = be strong; مُؤْيِدٌ that which affords protection, shade; otherwise DlW 125) Gn 2:6; אֵדוֹ Jb 36:27.\* Arabic derivation very dub.; DlW 125, cf. WB 22 KS 2:4 HptJAOS 1896, 158 ff. Gunk Gn 2:6 Holz Gn 2:6 Buhl cp. Assyrian edu, flood, mass of waters (√ אדה), editu, overflow (for irrigation); 𝔊 𝔖 𝔙 Aq in Gn 2:6 have spring, 𝔗 cloud, so 𝔊 𝔗 Jb 36:27; add perhaps Jb 36:30 אֵדוֹ for אוֹרוֹ (Du Dr).

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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 (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אֵד» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/108/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 36:27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.36.27/)

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כִּ֭י יְגָרַ֣ע נִטְפֵי־מָ֑יִם יָזֹ֖קּוּ מָטָ֣ר לְאֵדֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* (dm) he.draws.up drops of.water they.refine rain to mist his

*JPS 1917:* For He draweth away the drops of water, which distil rain from His vapour;

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[Genesis 2:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.2.6/)

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וְאֵ֖ד יַֽעֲלֶ֣ה מִן־הָאָ֑רֶץ וְהִשְׁקָ֖ה אֶֽת־כָּל־פְּנֵֽי־הָֽאֲדָמָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and water it.came.up from the earth and it.watered (et) all the.surface of the.ground

*JPS 1917:* but there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.

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