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title: חֲבַרְבֻּרֹת — stripe · The Tanakh dictionary
description: חֲבַרְבֻּרֹת (2272), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: stripe. BDB 1906: n.f. stripe, mark. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# חֲבַרְבֻּרֹת

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«חֲבַרְבֻּרֹת» in the Tanakh dictionary: **stripe** — 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:** 2272 · **BDB:** חֲבַרְבֻּרָה

### Glosses

spots (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

stripe [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2272/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. stripe, mark [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2272/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. stripe, mark, only pl. sf. חֲבַרְבֻּרֹתָיו Je 13:23 of stripes on a panther (tiger? cf. נָמֵר;—‖ עוֹרוֹ of a Cushite).

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «חֲבַרְבֻּרֹת» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2272/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Jeremiah 13:23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.13.23/)

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הֲיַהֲפֹ֤ךְ כּוּשִׁי֙ עוֹר֔וֹ וְנָמֵ֖ר חֲבַרְבֻּרֹתָ֑יו גַּם־אַתֶּם֙ תּוּכְל֣וּ לְהֵיטִ֔יב לִמֻּדֵ֖י הָרֵֽעַ׃

*Word for word:* will he.change? a.Cushite skin his and a.leopard spots its also you you.will.be.able to do.good O.\[those\].accustomed (of).to.do.evil

*JPS 1917:* Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.

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