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title: חַיּוּת — living widows · The Tanakh dictionary
description: חַיּוּת (2424), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: living widows. BDB 1906: n.f. abstr. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# חַיּוּת

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«חַיּוּת» in the Tanakh dictionary: **living widows** — 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:** 2424 · **BDB:** חַיּוּת

### Glosses

of.living (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

living widows [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2424/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. abstr. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2424/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. abstr. אַלְמְנוּת חַיּוּת 2 S 20:3, lit. ‘widowhood of livingness,’ Dr; We reads אַלְמָנוֹת חַיּוֹת living widows (‘grass-widows,’ who were separated from their husbands), after 𝔊 χῆραι ζῶσαι, so SS.

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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 (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «חַיּוּת» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2424/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[2 Samuel 20:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.20.3/)

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וַיָּבֹ֨א דָוִ֣ד אֶל־בֵּיתוֹ֮ יְרֽוּשָׁלִַם֒ וַיִּקַּ֣ח הַמֶּ֡לֶךְ אֵ֣ת עֶֽשֶׂר־נָשִׁ֣ים ׀ פִּלַגְשִׁ֡ים אֲשֶׁ֣ר הִנִּיחַ֩ לִשְׁמֹ֨ר הַבַּ֜יִת וַֽיִּתְּנֵ֤ם בֵּית־מִשְׁמֶ֙רֶת֙ וַֽיְכַלְכְּלֵ֔ם וַאֲלֵיהֶ֖ם לֹא־בָ֑א וַתִּהְיֶ֧ינָה צְרֻר֛וֹת עַד־י֥וֹם מֻתָ֖ן אַלְמְנ֥וּת חַיּֽוּת׃ס

*Word for word:* and he.came David to house his Jerusalem and he.took the king (et) \[the\].ten women concubines whom he.had.left to keep the house and he put.them a.house of.confinement and he sustained.them and into them not he.went and they.were locked.up until the.day died they widowhood of.living

*JPS 1917:* And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in ward, and provided them with sustenance, but went not in unto them. So they were shut up unto the day of their death, in widowhood, with their husband alive.

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