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title: יִסְכָּה — Iscah · The Tanakh dictionary
description: יִסְכָּה (3252), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: Iscah. BDB 1906: n.pr.f. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# יִסְכָּה

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«יִסְכָּה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Iscah** — 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:** 3252 · **BDB:** יִסְכָּה

### Glosses

of.Iscah (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Iscah [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3252/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.f. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3252/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.f. (etym. dubious)—a daughter of הָרָן, and sister of מִלְכָּה Gn 11:29, 𝔊 Ιεσχα.

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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 (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «יִסְכָּה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3252/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Genesis 11:29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.11.29/)

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וַיִּקַּ֨ח אַבְרָ֧ם וְנָח֛וֹר לָהֶ֖ם נָשִׁ֑ים שֵׁ֤ם אֵֽשֶׁת־אַבְרָם֙ שָׂרָ֔י וְשֵׁ֤ם אֵֽשֶׁת־נָחוֹר֙ מִלְכָּ֔ה בַּת־הָרָ֥ן אֲבִֽי־מִלְכָּ֖ה וַֽאֲבִ֥י יִסְכָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.took Abram and Nahor for themselves wives the.name of.the.wife of.Abram \[was\].Sarai and the.name of.the.wife of.Nahor \[was\].Milcah the.daughter of.Haran the.father of.Milcah and the.father of.Iscah

*JPS 1917:* And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.

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