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title: יֵמִם — hot springs · The Tanakh dictionary
description: יֵמִם (3222), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: hot springs. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# יֵמִם

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«יֵמִם» in the Tanakh dictionary: **hot springs** — 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:** 3222 · **BDB:** יֵמִם

### Glosses

springs (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

hot springs [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3222/#m1)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] appar. pl., meaning dub.; only in הוּא עֲנָה אֲשֶׁר מָצָא אֶת־הַיֵּמִם בַּמִּדְבָּר Gn 36:24 that is the ’Ana that found the יֵמִם in the wilderness when he was pasturing the asses of Ṣib‘ōn his father; perhaps hot springs, 𝔙 aquae calidae; so Thes MV DechentZPV vii. 1884, 172 al.; yet no suitable √ ימה (or ימם) known; v. further Di BuhlEdomiter 46.

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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 (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «יֵמִם» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3222/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Genesis 36:24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.36.24/)

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וְאֵ֥לֶּה בְנֵֽי־צִבְע֖וֹן וְאַיָּ֣ה וַעֲנָ֑ה ה֣וּא עֲנָ֗ה אֲשֶׁ֨ר מָצָ֤א אֶת־הַיֵּמִם֙ בַּמִּדְבָּ֔ר בִּרְעֹת֥וֹ אֶת־הַחֲמֹרִ֖ים לְצִבְע֥וֹן אָבִֽיו׃

*Word for word:* and these \[were\].the.sons of.Zibeon and Aiah and Anah he \[was\].Anah who he.found (et) the.hot springs in the wilderness when he was.pasturing (et) the donkeys of Zibeon father his

*JPS 1917:* And these are the children of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah — this is Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness, as he fed the asses of Zibeon his father.

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