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title: טְחֹרִים — tumours · The Tanakh dictionary
description: טְחֹרִים (2914), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 8 times: tumours. BDB 1906: n.m. tumours. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# טְחֹרִים

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«טְחֹרִים» in the Tanakh dictionary: **tumours** — 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:** 8 times · **Key:** 2914 · **BDB:** טְחוֹר

### Glosses

tumors (5); \[are\].the.tumors (1); their.tumors (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

tumours [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2914/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. tumours [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2914/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. 1 S 6:4 only pl. tumours, result of dysentery (v. Aramaic √) (so Aramaic טְחוֹרַיָּא, ܛܚܽܘܪܳܐ )—chiefly Qr for Kt עפלים, עפלֵי, hemorrhoids: viz. טְחֹרִים Dt 28:27 1 S 5:6, 9, 12; טְחֹרֵי זָהָב 6:4; צַלְמֵי טְחֹרֵיכֶם 6:5; twice it has found its way into the Kt טְחֹרֵי הַזָּהָב 6:17, צַלְמֵי טְחֹרֵיהֶם 6:11; WeSam. 27 n., cf. GeiUrschrift 408 f.

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Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: another 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 «טְחֹרִים» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2914/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Samuel 5:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.5.12/)

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וְהָֽאֲנָשִׁים֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר לֹא־מֵ֔תוּ הֻכּ֖וּ בַּטְּחֹרִ֑יםוַתַּ֛עַל שַֽׁוְעַ֥ת הָעִ֖יר הַשָּׁמָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* and the men who not they.died they.were.struck with the tumors and it.went.up the.cry.for.help of the.city the heavens

*JPS 1917:* And the men that died not were smitten with the emerods; and the cry of the city went up to heaven.

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[1 Samuel 6:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.6.11/)

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וַיָּשִׂ֛מוּ אֶת־אֲר֥וֹן יְהוָ֖ה אֶל־הָעֲגָלָ֑ה וְאֵ֣ת הָאַרְגַּ֗ז וְאֵת֙ עַכְבְּרֵ֣י הַזָּהָ֔ב וְאֵ֖ת צַלְמֵ֥י טְחֹרֵיהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* and they.put (et) the.ark of.Yahweh into the cart and (et) the box and (et) the.mice of.(the) gold and (et) the.images their.tumors their

*JPS 1917:* And they put the ark of the LORD upon the cart, and the coffer with the mice of gold and the images of their emerods.

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