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title: זִמָּה — plan · The Tanakh dictionary
description: זִמָּה (2154), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 29 times: plan. BDB 1906: n.f. plan, device, wickedness. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# זִמָּה

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«זִמָּה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **plan** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 29 times · **Key:** 2154 · **BDB:** זִמָּה

### Glosses

licentiousness (12); wickedness (7); \[is\].wickedness (3)

### Meaning (OSHB)

plan [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2154/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. plan, device, wickedness [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2154/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. plan, device, wickedness—abs. ז׳ Lv 18:17 + 17 times; cstr. זִמַּת Pr 24:9 + 2 times; sf. זִמָּתֵךְ Ez 16:58 + 3 times; זִמַּתְכֶ֫נָֿה Ez 23:48, 49; pl. זִמּוֹת Is 32:7, sf. זִמֹּתַי Jb 17:11;— plan, purpose Jb 17:11; elsewhere always in bad sense: evil device Is 32:7 (c. יעץ, sq. לְחַבֵּל); זִמַּת אִוֶּלֶת Pr 24:9; cf. ψ 26:10 (‖ שֹׁחַד), 119:150. wickedness in act עשׂה ז׳ Ho 6:9 (where murder in context), Pr 10:23; 21:27 cf. Now. Especially of unchastity: incest Lv 18:17; 20:14(×2), licentiousness 19:29 (all H), Ju 20:6 (‖ נְבָלָה), adultery Jb 31:11; freq. (mostly Ez) metaph. of idolatry of people under fig. of harlotry and adultery Je 13:27 (זִמַּת זְנוּתֵךְ), Ez 16:27 (דַּרְכֵּךְ זִמָּה), v 43, 58 (both ‖ תּוֹעֵבָה), 22:9 (c. עשׂה), v 11 (טִמֵּא בְּזִמָּה, ‖ תועבה), 23:21, 27 (‖ זְנוּתֵךְ), v 29 (עֶרְוַת זְנוּנַיִךְ וְזִמָּתֵךְ וְתַזְנוּתָ֑יִךְ), v 35 (‖ תַּזְנוּתָ֑יִךְ), v 44 (אִשּׁוֹת הַזּ׳, Co לעשׂות ז׳), v 48(×2), 49 (‖ חֲטָאֵי גִלּוּלֵיכֶן), 24:13. \[In Ez 16:27, 43; 24:13 del. Co, chiefly on intern. grounds.\]

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 23 of its verses cited, 2 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 (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «זִמָּה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2154/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 31:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.31.11/)

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כִּי־הִ֥יא זִמָּ֑ה וְ֝ה֗וּא עָוֺ֥ן פְּלִילִֽים׃

*Word for word:* (dm) it \[is\].wickedness and it \[is\].iniquity judges

*JPS 1917:* For that were a heinous crime; yea, it were an iniquity to be punished by the judges.

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[Psalms 119:150](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.150/)

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קָ֭רְבוּ רֹדְפֵ֣י זִמָּ֑ה מִתּוֹרָתְךָ֥ רָחָֽקוּ׃

*Word for word:* they.draw.near \[those.who\].pursue (of).wickedness from law your they.are.distant

*JPS 1917:* They draw nigh that follow after wickedness; they are far from Thy law.

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