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title: אָח — fire-pot · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אָח (254), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: fire-pot. BDB 1906: n.f. fire-pot, brasier. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אָח

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«אָח» in the Tanakh dictionary: **fire-pot** — 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:** 3 times · **Key:** 254 · **BDB:** אָח⁵

### Glosses

fire-pot (3)

### Meaning (OSHB)

fire-pot [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/254/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. fire-pot, brasier [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/254/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. fire-pot, brasier (Arabic وَلَدًا, in Thes, is an error fire-pot is loan-word from Egyptian ʿḫ according to WMMOLZ 3, 51) always c. art. Je 36:22 הַא׳ לְפָנָיו מְבֹעָ֑רֶת the brasier before him was burning; v 23 הָאֵשׁ אֲשֶׁר אֶל־הָא׳; v 23 הָאֵשׁ אֲשֶׁר עַל־הָא׳ (i. אָח, brother v. sub אחה; iii. אָח interj., p. 25).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (11 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (9 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אָח» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/254/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Jeremiah 36:22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.36.22/)

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וְהַמֶּ֗לֶךְ יוֹשֵׁב֙ בֵּ֣ית הַחֹ֔רֶף בַּחֹ֖דֶשׁ הַתְּשִׁיעִ֑י וְאֶת־הָאָ֖ח לְפָנָ֥יו מְבֹעָֽרֶת׃

*Word for word:* and the king \[was\].sitting the.house of the.winter in the month (the) ninth and (et) the fire-pot before him \[was\].kindled

*JPS 1917:* Now the king was sitting in the winter-house in the ninth month; and the brazier was burning before him.

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[Jeremiah 36:23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.36.23/)

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וַיְהִ֣י ׀ כִּקְר֣וֹא יְהוּדִ֗י שָׁלֹ֣שׁ דְּלָתוֹת֮ וְאַרְבָּעָה֒ יִֽקְרָעֶ֙הָ֙ בְּתַ֣עַר הַסֹּפֵ֔ר וְהַשְׁלֵ֕ךְ אֶל־הָאֵ֖שׁ אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֶל־הָאָ֑ח עַד־תֹּם֙ כָּל־הַמְּגִלָּ֔ה עַל־הָאֵ֖שׁ אֲשֶׁ֥ר עַל־הָאָֽח׃

*Word for word:* and it.was just as.read.aloud Jehudi three doors and four he tore.it with the.knife of the.scribe and he.threw.\[it\] into the fire which \[was\].to the fire-pot until was.consumed all the scroll on the fire which \[was\].on the fire-pot

*JPS 1917:* And it came to pass, when Jehudi had read three or four columns, that he cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was in the brazier, until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier.

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