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title: דּוּב — pine away · The Tanakh dictionary
description: דּוּב (1727), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: pine away. BDB 1906: vb. pine away. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# דּוּב

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«דּוּב» in the Tanakh dictionary: **pine away** — 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:** 1727 · **BDB:** דּוּב

### Glosses

make.pine.away (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

pine away [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1727/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. pine away [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1727/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. pine away (cf. דאב, דאבון)— Pt. f. pl. מְדִיבֹת נפשׁ Lv 26:16 (diseases) causing to pine away the soul (life), cf. Di; in 1 S 2:33 read prob. Inf. לְהָדִיב את נפשׁך (for MT לַאֲדִיב) so Dr; trans. to cause thy (al. his) soul to pine away (cf. VB).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «דּוּב» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1727/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Leviticus 26:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.26.16/)

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אַף־אֲנִ֞י אֶֽעֱשֶׂה־זֹּ֣את לָכֶ֗ם וְהִפְקַדְתִּ֨י עֲלֵיכֶ֤ם בֶּֽהָלָה֙ אֶת־הַשַּׁחֶ֣פֶת וְאֶת־הַקַּדַּ֔חַת מְכַלּ֥וֹת עֵינַ֖יִם וּמְדִיבֹ֣ת נָ֑פֶשׁ וּזְרַעְתֶּ֤ם לָרִיק֙ זַרְעֲכֶ֔ם וַאֲכָלֻ֖הוּ אֹיְבֵיכֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* also I I.will.do this to you and I.will.appoint on you sudden.terror (et) (the) consumption and (et) (the) fever \[which\].cause.to.fail \[the\].eyes and.\[which\] make.pine.away \[the\].life and you.will.sow to (the) emptiness seed your and they will.eat.it enemies your

*JPS 1917:* I also will do this unto you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall make the eyes to fail, and the soul to languish; and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

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