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title: אוּת — consent · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אוּת (225), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 4 times: consent. BDB 1906: vb. consent, agree. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אוּת

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«אוּת» in the Tanakh dictionary: **consent** — 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:** 225 · **BDB:** אוּת

### Glosses

let.us.agree (1); they.agreed (1); they.will.agree (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

consent [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/225/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. consent, agree [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/225/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. only Impf. consent, agree (cf. Rab. נֵיאוֹת Niph. Pt. especially enjoying NHWB48) sq. לְ Gn 34:22 יֵאֹתוּ לָנוּ; v 15 נֵאוֹת לָכֶם; v 23 נֵאוֹתָה לָהֶם; sq. Inf. 2 K 12:9 וַיֵּאֹתוּ הַבֹּהֲנִים לְבִלְתִּי קְחַת־כֶּסֶף.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (12 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (8 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אוּת» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/225/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Genesis 34:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.34.15/)

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אַךְ־בְּזֹ֖את נֵא֣וֹת לָכֶ֑ם אִ֚ם תִּהְי֣וּ כָמֹ֔נוּ לְהִמֹּ֥ל לָכֶ֖ם כָּל־זָכָֽר׃

*Word for word:* only in this we.will.agree to you if you.will.be like us by being.circumcised to you every male

*JPS 1917:* Only on this condition will we consent unto you: if ye will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised;

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[2 Kings 12:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.12.9/)

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וַיֵּאֹ֖תוּ הַכֹּֽהֲנִ֑ים לְבִלְתִּ֤י קְחַת־כֶּ֙סֶף֙ מֵאֵ֣ת הָעָ֔ם וּלְבִלְתִּ֥י חַזֵּ֖ק אֶת־בֶּ֥דֶק הַבָּֽיִת׃

*Word for word:* and they.agreed the priests to not to.take money from with the people and to not to.repair (et) the.damage of the.house

*JPS 1917:* And the priests consented that they should take no longer money from the people, neither repair the breaches of the house.

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