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title: זֶרֶד — Zared · The Tanakh dictionary
description: זֶרֶד (2218), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 4 times: Zared. BDB 1906: n.pr.fl. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# זֶרֶד

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«זֶרֶד» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Zared** — 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:** 4 times · **Key:** 2218 · **BDB:** זֶ֫רֶד

### Glosses

of.Zered (4)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Zared [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2218/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.fl. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2218/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.fl. (√ dub.; on form cf. LgBN77)—נַחַל זֶ֫רֶד Dt 2:13; נַחַל זָ֑רֶד Nu 21:12 (JE), Dt 2:13, 14; identification disputed; RobBR ii. 157 proposes Wadyel-Aḥsy (= נַחַל הָעֲרָבִים Is 15:7), between Moab \& Edom; Sail Saʿîde (Kn), chief source of Arnon from SE. (Burckh Syrien, 635), or W. Kerak (Ges Ke Di); so also GASmGeog.557.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «זֶרֶד» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2218/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Numbers 21:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.21.12/)

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מִשָּׁ֖ם נָסָ֑עוּ וַֽיַּחֲנ֖וּ בְּנַ֥חַל זָֽרֶד׃

*Word for word:* from there they.set.out and they.encamped in the.wadi of.Zered

*JPS 1917:* From thence they journeyed, and pitched in the valley of Zered.

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[Deuteronomy 2:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.2.13/)

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עַתָּ֗ה קֻ֛מוּ וְעִבְר֥וּ לָכֶ֖ם אֶת־נַ֣חַל זָ֑רֶד וַֽנַּעֲבֹ֖ר אֶת־נַ֥חַל זָֽרֶד׃

*Word for word:* now arise and pass.over (for yourselves (et) the.wadi of.Zered and we.passed.over (et) the.wadi of.Zered

*JPS 1917:* Now rise up, and get you over the brook Zered.' And we went over the brook Zered.

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