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title: דֹּחַן — millet · The Tanakh dictionary
description: דֹּחַן (1764), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: millet. BDB 1906: n.m. millet. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# דֹּחַן

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«דֹּחַן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **millet** — 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:** 1764 · **BDB:** דֹּ֫חַן

### Glosses

millet (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

millet [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1764/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. millet [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1764/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. millet (NH דּוֹחַן Aramaic דּוֹחִינָא), ד׳ Ez 4:9 in the series חִטִּין וּשְׂעֹרִים וּפוֹל וַעֲדָשִׁים וְד׳ וְכֻסְּמִים v. Löw72.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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 (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «דֹּחַן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1764/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Ezekiel 4:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.4.9/)

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וְאַתָּ֣ה קַח־לְךָ֡ חִטִּ֡ין וּ֠שְׂעֹרִים וּפ֨וֹל וַעֲדָשִׁ֜ים וְדֹ֣חַן וְכֻסְּמִ֗ים וְנָתַתָּ֤ה אוֹתָם֙ בִּכְלִ֣י אֶחָ֔ד וְעָשִׂ֧יתָ אוֹתָ֛ם לְךָ֖ לְלָ֑חֶם מִסְפַּ֨ר הַיָּמִ֜ים אֲשֶׁר־אַתָּ֣ה ׀ שׁוֹכֵ֣ב עַֽל־צִדְּךָ֗ שְׁלֹשׁ־מֵא֧וֹת וְתִשְׁעִ֛ים י֖וֹם תֹּאכֲלֶֽנּוּ׃

*Word for word:* and you take (for yourself wheat(s) and barley(s) and bean\[s\] and lentils and millet and spelt(s) and you.will.put them in a.vessel one and you.will.make them for yourself into bread the.number of the.days which you \[will.be\].lying on side your three hundreds and ninety day\[s\] you will.eat.it

*JPS 1917:* Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof; according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, even three hundred and ninety days, shalt thou eat thereof.

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