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title: יָחֵף — barefoot · The Tanakh dictionary
description: יָחֵף (3182), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 5 times: barefoot. BDB 1906: adj. barefoot. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# יָחֵף

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«יָחֵף» in the Tanakh dictionary: **barefoot** — 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:** 5 times · **Key:** 3182 · **BDB:** יָחֵף

### Glosses

barefoot (5)

### Meaning (OSHB)

barefoot [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3182/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj. barefoot [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3182/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj. barefoot, always abs. יָחֵף Is 20:2 + 4 times;—הלך עָרוֹם וְיָחֵף Is 20:2 (נַעַלְךָ תַחֲלֹץ מֵעַל רַגְלֶ֑ךָ in preceding cl.), v 3; הֹלֵךְ יָחֵף 2 S 15:30; נָהַג יָחֵף Is 20:4; appar. = subst., מִנְעִי רַגְלֵךְ מִיָּחֵף Je 2:25 withhold thy foot from bareness (Syriac ܝܽܘܚܳܦܳܐ discalceatio).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «יָחֵף» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3182/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Jeremiah 2:25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.2.25/)

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מִנְעִ֤י רַגְלֵךְ֙ מִיָּחֵ֔ף וּגְרוֹנֵ֖ךְ מִצִּמְאָ֑ה וַתֹּאמְרִ֣י נוֹאָ֔שׁ ל֕וֹא כִּֽי־אָהַ֥בְתִּי זָרִ֖ים וְאַחֲרֵיהֶ֥ם אֵלֵֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* restrain foot your from barefoot and throat your from thirst and you.said despairing no (dm) I.love strange.\[gods\] and after them I.will.walk

*JPS 1917:* Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst; but thou saidst: 'There is no hope; no, for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.'

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[Isaiah 20:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.20.3/)

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וַיֹּ֣אמֶר יְהוָ֔ה כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר הָלַ֛ךְ עַבְדִּ֥י יְשַׁעְיָ֖הוּ עָר֣וֹם וְיָחֵ֑ף שָׁלֹ֤שׁ שָׁנִים֙ א֣וֹת וּמוֹפֵ֔ת עַל־מִצְרַ֖יִם וְעַל־כּֽוּשׁ׃

*Word for word:* and he.said Yahweh just as he.has.gone servant my Isaiah naked and barefoot three years a.sign and a.portent on Egypt and on Cush

*JPS 1917:* And the LORD said: 'Like as My servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot to be for three years a sign and a wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia,

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