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title: בָּתָה — end · The Tanakh dictionary
description: בָּתָה (1326), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: end. BDB 1906: n.f. end, destruction. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# בָּתָה

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«בָּתָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **end** — 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:** 1326 · **BDB:** בָּתָה

### Glosses

a.desolation (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

end [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1326/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. end, destruction [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1326/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. end, destruction (for בַּתָּה, perhaps on account of difference of meaning, perhaps from analogy of כָּלָה with like sense; cf. Di)—וַאֲשִׁיתֵהוּ בָתָה Is 5:6 and I will make it (the vineyard) a destruction, a waste, or (Che) make an end of it.

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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 (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «בָּתָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1326/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 5:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.5.6/)

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וַאֲשִׁיתֵ֣הוּ בָתָ֗ה לֹ֤א יִזָּמֵר֙ וְלֹ֣א יֵעָדֵ֔ר וְעָלָ֥ה שָׁמִ֖יר וָשָׁ֑יִת וְעַ֤ל הֶעָבִים֙ אֲצַוֶּ֔ה מֵהַמְטִ֥יר עָלָ֖יו מָטָֽר׃

*Word for word:* and I will.make.it a.desolation not it.will.be.pruned and not it.will.be.hoed and it.will.grow.up thorn\[s\] and bush\[es\] and to the clouds I.will.command from raining on it rain

*JPS 1917:* And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned nor hoed, but there shall come up briers and thorns; I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

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