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title: יָבַב — cry shrilly · The Tanakh dictionary
description: יָבַב (2980), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: cry shrilly. BDB 1906: vb. Pi. cry shrilly. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# יָבַב

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«יָבַב» in the Tanakh dictionary: **cry shrilly** — 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:** 2980 · **BDB:** יָבַב

### Glosses

she.lamented (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

cry shrilly [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/2980/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. Pi. cry shrilly [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/2980/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. only Pi. cry shrilly (NH Pi. lament; Aramaic ܝܰܒܶܒ, יַבֵּב sound clarions, exult; Ethiopic የበበ especially I. 2)— Impf. 3 fs. וַתְּיַבֵּב Ju 5:28 through the windows she looked and shrilly cried.

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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 (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «יָבַב» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/2980/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Judges 5:28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.5.28/)

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בְּעַד֩ הַחַלּ֨וֹן נִשְׁקְפָ֧ה וַתְּיַבֵּ֛ב אֵ֥ם סִֽיסְרָ֖א בְּעַ֣ד הָֽאֶשְׁנָ֑ב מַדּ֗וּעַ בֹּשֵׁ֤שׁ רִכְבּוֹ֙ לָב֔וֹא מַדּ֣וּעַ אֶֽחֱר֔וּ פַּעֲמֵ֖י מַרְכְּבוֹתָֽיו׃

*Word for word:* through the window she.looked.down and she.lamented the.mother of.Sisera through the window-lattice why? has.it.delayed chariot his to come why? have.they.delayed the.hoof-beats his.chariots his

*JPS 1917:* Through the window she looked forth, and peered, the mother of Sisera, through the lattice: 'Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why tarry the wheels of his chariots?

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