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title: בְּלֹוי — produce · The Tanakh dictionary
description: בְּלֹוי (1094), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: produce. BDB 1906: worn out things, rags. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# בְּלֹוי

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«בְּלֹוי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **produce** — 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:** 3 times · **Key:** 1094 · **BDB:** בְּלוֹא

### Glosses

worn.out.things (2); the.worn.out.things (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

produce [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1094/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

worn out things, rags [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1094/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] worn out things, rags (Syriac ܒ̈ܠܳܝܶܐ id.) pl. cstr. בְּלֹויֵ Je 38:11(×2), בְּלוֹאֵי v 12.

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Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 3 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (19 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (14 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «בְּלֹוי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1094/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Jeremiah 38:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.38.12/)

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וַיֹּ֡אמֶר עֶבֶד־מֶ֨לֶךְעֶבֶד־מֶ֨לֶךְ הַכּוּשִׁ֜י אֶֽל־יִרְמְיָ֗הוּ שִׂ֣ים נָ֠א בְּלוֹאֵ֨י הַסְּחָב֤וֹת וְהַמְּלָחִים֙ תַּ֚חַת אַצִּל֣וֹת יָדֶ֔יךָ מִתַּ֖חַת לַחֲבָלִ֑ים וַיַּ֥עַשׂ יִרְמְיָ֖הוּ כֵּֽן׃

*Word for word:* and he.said Ebed Melech the Cushite to Jeremiah put please the.worn.out.things of the.clothes and the rags under the.joints your.hands your from under to.\[the\] ropes and he.did Jeremiah thus

*JPS 1917:* And Ebed-melech the Ethiopian said unto Jeremiah: 'Put now these worn clouts and rags under thine armholes under the cords.' And Jeremiah did so.

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[Jeremiah 38:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.38.11/)

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וַיִּקַּ֣ח ׀ עֶֽבֶד־מֶ֨לֶךְעֶֽבֶד־מֶ֨לֶךְ אֶת־הָאֲנָשִׁ֜ים בְּיָד֗וֹ וַיָּבֹ֤א בֵית־הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ אֶל־תַּ֣חַת הָאוֹצָ֔ר וַיִּקַּ֤ח מִשָּׁם֙ בְּלוֹיֵ֣ סְחָב֔וֹת וּבְלוֹיֵ֖ מְלָחִ֑ים וַיְשַׁלְּחֵ֧ם אֶֽל־יִרְמְיָ֛הוּ אֶל־הַבּ֖וֹר בַּחֲבָלִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and he.took Ebed Melech (et) the men in hand his and he.went the.house of the.king to under the storehouse and he.took from there worn.out.things of.clothes and worn.out.things of.rags and he let.them.down to Jeremiah into the cistern with ropes

*JPS 1917:* So Ebed-melech took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took thence worn clouts and worn rags, and let them down by cords into the pit to Jeremiah.

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