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title: דְּיוֹ — ink · The Tanakh dictionary
description: דְּיוֹ (1773), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: ink. BDB 1906: n.m. ink. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# דְּיוֹ

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«דְּיוֹ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **ink** — 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:** 1773 · **BDB:** דְּיוֹ

### Glosses

ink (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

ink [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1773/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. ink [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1773/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. ink (NH id., Aramaic דְּיוּתָא, ܕܝܽܘܬܳܐ; Arabic دَوَاةٌ inkbottle, inkhorn; Ges-Dietr Fl NHWB i. 41 der. from √ דוה in assumed sense of slowly flowing; Fl comp. Arabic دُواية, دِواية thin skin on surface of milk, cf. also Ol§ 173 g), וַאֲנִי כֹּתֵב עַל־הַסֵּפֶר בַּדְּי֑וֹ Je 36:18, cf. Lag Ges. Abh. 216.—On erasible quality of Hebrew ink cf. RSOTJC, 400 f. ed. 2, 71; v. further L. LöwGraphische Requisiten etc. bei den Juden, 1870, i. 145 ff.

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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 «דְּיוֹ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1773/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Jeremiah 36:18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.36.18/)

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וַיֹּ֤אמֶר לָהֶם֙ בָּר֔וּךְ מִפִּיו֙ יִקְרָ֣א אֵלַ֔י אֵ֥ת כָּל־הַדְּבָרִ֖ים הָאֵ֑לֶּה וַאֲנִ֛י כֹּתֵ֥ב עַל־הַסֵּ֖פֶר בַּדְּיֽוֹ׃פ

*Word for word:* and he.said to them Baruch from mouth his he.proclaimed to me (et) all the words (the) these and I \[was\].writing on the scroll with (the) ink

*JPS 1917:* Then Baruch answered them: 'He pronounced all these words unto me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book.'

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