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title: יְדִדוּת — love · The Tanakh dictionary
description: יְדִדוּת (3033), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: love. BDB 1906: n.f. love. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# יְדִדוּת

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«יְדִדוּת» in the Tanakh dictionary: **love** — 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:** 3033 · **BDB:** יְדִדוּת

### Glosses

the.one.beloved (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

love [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3033/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. love [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3033/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. love = obj. of love;—only cstr. יְדִדוּת נַפְשִׁי Je 12:7 (י׳ speaks) love (i.e beloved) of my soul.

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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 «יְדִדוּת» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3033/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Jeremiah 12:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.12.7/)

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עָזַ֙בְתִּי֙ אֶת־בֵּיתִ֔י נָטַ֖שְׁתִּי אֶת־נַחֲלָתִ֑י נָתַ֛תִּי אֶת־יְדִד֥וּת נַפְשִׁ֖י בְּכַ֥ף אֹיְבֶֽיהָ׃

*Word for word:* I.have.forsaken (et) house my I.have.abandoned (et) inheritance my I.have.given (et) the.one.beloved my.self my in the.palm enemies her

*JPS 1917:* I have forsaken My house, I have cast off My heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of My soul into the hand of her enemies.

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