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title: חַוָּה — tent-village · The Tanakh dictionary
description: חַוָּה (2333), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 7 times: tent-village. BDB 1906: n.f. tent-village. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# חַוָּה

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«חַוָּה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **tent-village** — 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:** 7 times · **Key:** 2333 · **BDB:** חַוָּה²

### Glosses

the.villages (6); villages (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

tent-village [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2333/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. tent-village [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2333/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. tent-village—Pl. חַוֹּתֵיהֶם Nu 32:41 (JE), cf. Di. Elsewhere in cpd. appellative, almost = n.pr. חַוֹּת יָאִיר Dt 3:14 Jos 13:30 (D), Ju 10:4 1 K 4:13 1 Ch 2:23.—i. חַוָּה n.pr.f. v. supr.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (10 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (8 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «חַוָּה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2333/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Numbers 32:41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.32.41/)

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וְיָאִ֤יר בֶּן־מְנַשֶּׁה֙ הָלַ֔ךְ וַיִּלְכֹּ֖ד אֶת־חַוֺּתֵיהֶ֑ם וַיִּקְרָ֥א אֶתְהֶ֖ן חַוֺּ֥ת יָאִֽיר׃

*Word for word:* and Jair the.son of.Manasseh he.went and he.captured (et) villages their and he.called them the.villages of.Jair

*JPS 1917:* And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the villages thereof, and called them Havvoth-jair.

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[Joshua 13:30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.13.30/)

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וַיְהִ֣י גְבוּלָ֗ם מִמַּחֲנַ֨יִם כָּֽל־הַבָּשָׁ֜ן כָּֽל־מַמְלְכ֣וּת ׀ ע֣וֹג מֶֽלֶךְ־הַבָּשָׁ֗ן וְכָל־חַוֺּ֥ת יָאִ֛יר אֲשֶׁ֥ר בַּבָּשָׁ֖ן שִׁשִּׁ֥ים עִֽיר׃

*Word for word:* and it.was territory their from Mahanaim all (the) Bashan all the.kingdom of.Og the.king of.(the) Bashan and all the.villages of.Jair which \[are\].in (the) Bashan sixty citi\[es\]

*JPS 1917:* And their border was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the villages of Jair, which are in Bashan, threescore cities;

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