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title: הוּן — be easy · The Tanakh dictionary
description: הוּן (1951), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: be easy. BDB 1906: vb. be easy. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# הוּן

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«הוּן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **be easy** — 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:** 1951 · **BDB:** הוּן

### Glosses

you.regarded.as.easy (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

be easy [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1951/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. be easy [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1951/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. be easy (Arabic هَانَ be light, easy, cf. هَوْنٌ, هَيْنٌ (v. אוּן), Aramaic NH הוֹן gentleness, ܗܽܘܢ, ܗܰܘܢܳܐ is mind, sense; vid. conject. on development of meanings Fl ChWB i. 423)—only Impf. וַתָּהִינוּ sq. Inf. Dt 1:41 regard as easy to go up, or make light of going up; so Thes Kn Ke Di RVm (construct. as Nu 14:44 וַיַּעְפִּלוּ לִעֲלוֹת, though ‖ to this in Dt is v 43).

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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 (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «הוּן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1951/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Deuteronomy 1:41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.1.41/)

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וַֽתַּעֲנ֣וּ ׀ וַתֹּאמְר֣וּ אֵלַ֗י חָטָאנוּ֮ לַֽיהוָה֒ אֲנַ֤חְנוּ נַעֲלֶה֙ וְנִלְחַ֔מְנוּ כְּכֹ֥ל אֲשֶׁר־צִוָּ֖נוּ יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֵ֑ינוּ וַֽתַּחְגְּר֗וּ אִ֚ישׁ אֶת־כְּלֵ֣י מִלְחַמְתּ֔וֹ וַתָּהִ֖ינוּ לַעֲלֹ֥ת הָהָֽרָה׃

*Word for word:* and you.answered and you.said to me we.have.sinned to Yahweh we we.will.go.up and we.will.fight according to.all that he has.commanded.us Yahweh God our and you.girded.on everyone (et) the.weapons his.war his and you.regarded.as.easy to go.up to the.hill country

*JPS 1917:* Then ye answered and said unto me: 'We have sinned against the LORD, we will go up and fight, according to all that the LORD our God commanded us.' And ye girded on every man his weapons of war, and deemed it a light thing to go up into the hill-country.

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