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title: חֶרֶשׁ — silently · The Tanakh dictionary
description: חֶרֶשׁ (2791), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: silently. BDB 1906: adv. silently, secretly. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# חֶרֶשׁ

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«חֶרֶשׁ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **silently** — 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:** 2791 · **BDB:** חֶ֫רֶשׁ

### Glosses

secretly (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

silently [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2791/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adv. silently, secretly [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2791/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n. m. as adv. silently, secretly—מְרַגְּלִים ח׳ Jos 2:1 (JE) exploring secretly.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (14 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech differs, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (12 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «חֶרֶשׁ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2791/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Joshua 2:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.2.1/)

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וַיִּשְׁלַ֣ח יְהוֹשֻׁ֣עַ־בִּן־נ֠וּן מִֽן־הַשִּׁטִּ֞ים שְׁנַֽיִם־אֲנָשִׁ֤ים מְרַגְּלִים֙ חֶ֣רֶשׁ לֵאמֹ֔ר לְכ֛וּ רְא֥וּ אֶת־הָאָ֖רֶץ וְאֶת־יְרִיח֑וֹ וַיֵּ֨לְכ֜וּ וַ֠יָּבֹאוּ בֵּית־אִשָּׁ֥ה זוֹנָ֛ה וּשְׁמָ֥הּ רָחָ֖ב וַיִּשְׁכְּבוּ־שָֽׁמָּה׃

*Word for word:* and he.sent Joshua the.son of.Nun from (the) Shittim two men spies secretly (cmp) go see (et) the land and (et) Jericho and they.went and they.went \[the\].house of.a.woman a.prostitute and name her \[was\].Rahab and they.lay.down there (to)

*JPS 1917:* And Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two spies secretly, saying: 'Go view the land, and Jericho.' And they went, and came into the house of a harlot whose name was Rahab, and lay there.

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