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title: דְּחִי — stumbling · The Tanakh dictionary
description: דְּחִי (1762), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: stumbling. BDB 1906: stumbling. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# דְּחִי

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«דְּחִי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **stumbling** — 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:** 2 times · **Key:** 1762 · **BDB:** דְּחִי

### Glosses

stumbling (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

stumbling [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1762/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

stumbling [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1762/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] stumbling הִצַּלְתָּ … רַגְלַי מִדֶּ֑חי ψ 56:14 = 116:8.

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «דְּחִי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1762/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 116:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.116.8/)

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כִּ֤י חִלַּ֥צְתָּ נַפְשִׁ֗י מִ֫מָּ֥וֶת אֶת־עֵינִ֥י מִן־דִּמְעָ֑ה אֶת־רַגְלִ֥י מִדֶּֽחִי׃

*Word for word:* (dm) you.have.rescued life my from death (et) eye my from tear\[s\] (et) foot my from stumbling

*JPS 1917:* For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from stumbling.

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[Psalms 56:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.56.14/)

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כִּ֤י הִצַּ֪לְתָּ נַפְשִׁ֡י מִמָּוֶת֮ הֲלֹ֥א רַגְלַ֗י מִ֫דֶּ֥חִי לְ֭הִֽתְהַלֵּךְ לִפְנֵ֣י אֱלֹהִ֑ים בְּ֝א֗וֹר הַֽחַיִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* (dm) you.have.delivered life my from death ? not feet my from stumbling to go.about before God in the.light of.(the) life

*JPS 1917:* For thou hast delivered my soul from death; hast Thou not delivered my feet from stumbling? that I may walk before God in the light of the living.

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