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title: חֲבֶרֶת — consort · The Tanakh dictionary
description: חֲבֶרֶת (2278), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: consort. BDB 1906: n.f. consort. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# חֲבֶרֶת

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«חֲבֶרֶת» in the Tanakh dictionary: **consort** — 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:** 2278 · **BDB:** חֲבֶ֫רֶת

### Glosses

companion (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

consort [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2278/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. consort [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2278/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. consort, i.e. wife וְהִיא חֲבֶרְתְּךָ Mal 2:14 (‖ אֵשֶׁת בְּרִיתֶ֑ךָ).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «חֲבֶרֶת» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2278/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Malachi 2:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MAL.2.14/)

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וַאֲמַרְתֶּ֖ם עַל־מָ֑ה עַ֡ל כִּי־יְהוָה֩ הֵעִ֨יד בֵּינְךָ֜ וּבֵ֣ין ׀ אֵ֣שֶׁת נְעוּרֶ֗יךָ אֲשֶׁ֤ר אַתָּה֙ בָּגַ֣דְתָּה בָּ֔הּ וְהִ֥יא חֲבֶרְתְּךָ֖ וְאֵ֥שֶׁת בְּרִיתֶֽךָ׃

*Word for word:* and you.say concerning what? on (dm) Yahweh he.has.testified between you and between the.wife your.youth(s) your whom you you.have.dealt.treacherously with her and she companion \[was\].your and the.wife your.covenant your

*JPS 1917:* Yet ye say: 'Wherefore?' Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously, though she is thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.

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