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title: בִּרְשַׁע — Birsha · The Tanakh dictionary
description: בִּרְשַׁע (1306), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: Birsha. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# בִּרְשַׁע

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«בִּרְשַׁע» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Birsha** — 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:** 1306 · **BDB:** בִּרְשַׁע

### Glosses

Birsha (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Birsha [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1306/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.m. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1306/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (√ \& meaning unknown) king of Gomorrah Gn 14:2.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «בִּרְשַׁע» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1306/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Genesis 14:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.14.2/)

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עָשׂ֣וּ מִלְחָמָ֗ה אֶת־בֶּ֙רַע֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ סְדֹ֔ם וְאֶת־בִּרְשַׁ֖ע מֶ֣לֶךְ עֲמֹרָ֑ה שִׁנְאָ֣ב ׀ מֶ֣לֶךְ אַדְמָ֗ה וְשֶׁמְאֵ֙בֶר֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ צְבוֹיִ֔יםוּמֶ֥לֶךְ בֶּ֖לַע הִיא־צֹֽעַר׃

*Word for word:* they.made war with Bera the.king of.Sodom and with Birsha the.king of.Gomorrah Shinab the.king of.Admah and Shemeber the.king of.Zeboiim and the.king of.Bela that \[is\].Zoar

*JPS 1917:* that they made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela — the same is Zoar.

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