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title: אָדַב — grieve · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אָדַב (109), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: grieve. BDB 1906: vb. grieve. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אָדַב

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«אָדַב» in the Tanakh dictionary: **grieve** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 109 · **BDB:** אָדַב

### Glosses

cause.to.grieve (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

grieve [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/109/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. grieve [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/109/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. grieve; inf. לַאֲדִיב (= לְהַאֲדִיב Ges§ 53.3.R 7) to cause to grieve 1 S 2:33. (But Dr prop. לְהָדִיב from דוב q.v.)

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 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 «אָדַב» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/109/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Samuel 2:33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.2.33/)

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וְאִ֗ישׁ לֹֽא־אַכְרִ֤ית לְךָ֙ מֵעִ֣ם מִזְבְּחִ֔י לְכַלּ֥וֹת אֶת־עֵינֶ֖יךָ וְלַאֲדִ֣יב אֶת־נַפְשֶׁ֑ךָ וְכָל־מַרְבִּ֥ית בֵּיתְךָ֖ יָמ֥וּתוּ אֲנָשִֽׁים׃

*Word for word:* and a.man not I.will.cut.off to you from with altar my to cause.to.fail (et) eyes your and to cause.to.grieve (et) self your and all the.increase your.house your they.will.die men

*JPS 1917:* Yet will I not cut off every man of thine from Mine altar, to make thine eyes to fail, and thy heart to languish; and all the increase of thy house shall die young men.

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