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title: הסה — hush! · The Tanakh dictionary
description: הסה (2013), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: hush!. BDB 1906: interj. hush! keep silence Hiph. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# הסה

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«הסה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **hush!** — 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:** 2013 · **BDB:** הַס

### Glosses

he.silenced (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

hush! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/2013/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

interj. hush! keep silence Hiph. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/2013/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** interj. hush! keep silence (prob. onomatop.) Ju 3:19 and he said, I have a secret errand unto thee, O king, וַיֹּאמֶר הָ֔ס and he said, Keep silence! Am 6:10 וְאָמַר הָ֔ס (while burying men in a pestilence), 8:3 (ellipt.) in every place הִשְׁלִיךְ הָֽס׃ they cast them (the corpses) forth, (saying) Hush! sq. (מִפָּנָיו) מִפְּנֵי י׳ Hb 2:20 Zp 1:7 Zc 2:17. Inflected, as though a verb, imv. pl. הַ֔סּוּ Ne 8:11 (Ges compares Arabic هَلُمَّ \[= הֲלֹם\] hither! inflected as an imv., e.g. هَلُمِّى, هَلُمُّوا: WAG i. § 368). Hence as denom. †Hiph. impf. apoc. וַיַּ֫הַס Nu 13:30 and Caleb stilled the people.

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Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech differs, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: another headword, part of speech differs, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «הסה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/2013/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Numbers 13:30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.13.30/)

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וַיַּ֧הַס כָּלֵ֛ב אֶת־הָעָ֖ם אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֑ה וַיֹּ֗אמֶר עָלֹ֤ה נַעֲלֶה֙ וְיָרַ֣שְׁנוּ אֹתָ֔הּ כִּֽי־יָכ֥וֹל נוּכַ֖ל לָֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* and he.silenced Caleb (et) the people to Moses and he.said certainly.(go.up) we.will.go.up and we.will.take.possession.of it (dm) certainly.(prevail) we.will.prevail to it

*JPS 1917:* And Caleb stilled the people toward Moses, and said: 'We should go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.'

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