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title: זָרָא — loathsome thing · The Tanakh dictionary
description: זָרָא (2214), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: loathsome thing. BDB 1906: loathsome thing. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# זָרָא

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«זָרָא» in the Tanakh dictionary: **loathsome thing** — 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:** 2214 · **BDB:** זָרָא

### Glosses

loathsome.thing (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

loathsome thing [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2214/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

loathsome thing [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2214/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[f.\] loathsome thing, עַד אֲשֶׁר יֵצֵא מֵאַפְּכֶם וְהָיָה לָכֶם לְזָרָא Nu 11:20 (JE) and it (the flesh) become to you a loathsome thing (𝔊 εἰς χολέραν, 𝔙 in nauseam), prob. err. for זָרָה (Sam.)

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «זָרָא» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2214/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Numbers 11:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.11.20/)

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עַ֣ד ׀ חֹ֣דֶשׁ יָמִ֗ים עַ֤ד אֲשֶׁר־יֵצֵא֙ מֵֽאַפְּכֶ֔ם וְהָיָ֥ה לָכֶ֖ם לְזָרָ֑א יַ֗עַן כִּֽי־מְאַסְתֶּ֤ם אֶת־יְהוָה֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר בְּקִרְבְּכֶ֔ם וַתִּבְכּ֤וּ לְפָנָיו֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר לָ֥מָּה זֶּ֖ה יָצָ֥אנוּ מִמִּצְרָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* until a.month of.days until that it.will.come.out from nose your and it.will.become for you (into).a loathsome.thing because (dm) you.have.rejected (et) Yahweh who \[is\].in midst your and you.have.wept before him (cmp) why? this did.we.come.out from Egypt

*JPS 1917:* but a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome unto you; because that ye have rejected the LORD who is among you, and have troubled Him with weeping, saying: Why, now, came we forth out of Egypt?'

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