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title: זֻלֻּת — worthlessness · The Tanakh dictionary
description: זֻלֻּת (2149), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: worthlessness. BDB 1906: n.f. worthlessness. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# זֻלֻּת

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«זֻלֻּת» in the Tanakh dictionary: **worthlessness** — 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:** 2149 · **BDB:** זֻלֻּת

### Glosses

vileness (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

worthlessness [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2149/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. worthlessness [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2149/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. worthlessness, only כְּרֻם זֻלֻּת לִבְנֵי אָדָם \[van d. H. זֻלּוּת\] ψ 12:9 cf. De \& Checrit. n.

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «זֻלֻּת» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2149/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 12:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.12.9/)

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סָבִ֗יב רְשָׁעִ֥ים יִתְהַלָּכ֑וּן כְּרֻ֥ם זֻ֝לּ֗וּת לִבְנֵ֥י אָדָֽם׃

*Word for word:* all.around wicked.\[people\] they walk.about just as.is.exalted vileness by.\[the\] children of.humankind

*JPS 1917:* The wicked walk on every side, when vileness is exalted among the sons of men.

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