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title: חֲנֻפָּה — profaneness · The Tanakh dictionary
description: חֲנֻפָּה (2613), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: profaneness. BDB 1906: n.f. profaneness, pollution. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# חֲנֻפָּה

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«חֲנֻפָּה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **profaneness** — 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:** 2613 · **BDB:** חֲנֻפָּה

### Glosses

wicked.behavior (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

profaneness [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2613/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. profaneness, pollution [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2613/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** (so Baer; van d. H חֲנֻפָה) n.f. profaneness, pollution, Je 23:15.

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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 (1 candidates); OSHB: 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 «חֲנֻפָּה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2613/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Jeremiah 23:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.23.15/)

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לָכֵ֞ן כֹּֽה־אָמַ֨ר יְהוָ֤ה צְבָאוֹת֙ עַל־הַנְּבִאִ֔ים הִנְנִ֨י מַאֲכִ֤יל אוֹתָם֙ לַֽעֲנָ֔ה וְהִשְׁקִתִ֖ים מֵי־רֹ֑אשׁ כִּ֗י מֵאֵת֙ נְבִיאֵ֣י יְרוּשָׁלִַ֔ם יָצְאָ֥ה חֲנֻפָּ֖ה לְכָל־הָאָֽרֶץ׃פ

*Word for word:* therefore thus he.says Yahweh of.hosts on the prophets here I \[am\].about.to.make.eat them wormwood and I will.make.them.drink water of.poison (dm) from with the.prophets of.Jerusalem it.has.gone.out wicked.behavior to all the land

*JPS 1917:* Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets: Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall; for from the prophets of Jerusalem is ungodliness gone forth into all the land.

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