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title: חֲרִישִׁי — a silent east wind · The Tanakh dictionary
description: חֲרִישִׁי (2759), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: a silent east wind. BDB 1906: adj. meaning wholly. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# חֲרִישִׁי

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«חֲרִישִׁי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **a silent east wind** — 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:** 2759 · **BDB:** חֲרִישִׁי

### Glosses

hot (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

a silent east wind [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2759/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj. meaning wholly [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2759/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj. meaning wholly dub.; only רוּחַ קָדִים חֲרִישִׁית Jon 4:8; a silent east wind is not suitable in context; still = sultry is mere conject.; Hi autumnal (√ I. חרשׁ); St proposes חרישׂית = חריסית, from חֶרֶם sun (or √ whence חֶרֶס comes) hot east wind; We makes no attempt to explain.

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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 (14 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (12 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «חֲרִישִׁי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2759/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Jonah 4:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JON.4.8/)

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וַיְהִ֣י ׀ כִּזְרֹ֣חַ הַשֶּׁ֗מֶשׁ וַיְמַ֨ן אֱלֹהִ֜ים ר֤וּחַ קָדִים֙ חֲרִישִׁ֔ית וַתַּ֥ךְ הַשֶּׁ֛מֶשׁ עַל־רֹ֥אשׁ יוֹנָ֖ה וַיִּתְעַלָּ֑ף וַיִּשְׁאַ֤ל אֶת־נַפְשׁוֹ֙ לָמ֔וּת וַיֹּ֕אמֶר ט֥וֹב מוֹתִ֖י מֵחַיָּֽי׃

*Word for word:* and it.was just as.arose the sun and he.appointed God a.wind an.east.wind hot and it.struck the sun on the.head of.Jonah and he.became.faint and he.asked (et) life his to die and he.said \[is\].good death my more than my.life

*JPS 1917:* And it came to pass, when the sun arose, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said: 'It is better for me to die than to live.'

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