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title: יָעֶה — distortion · The Tanakh dictionary
description: יָעֶה (3257), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 9 times: distortion. BDB 1906: shovel. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# יָעֶה

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«יָעֶה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **distortion** — 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:** 9 times · **Key:** 3257 · **BDB:** יָע²

### Glosses

shovels (9)

### Meaning (OSHB)

distortion [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3257/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

shovel [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3257/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] shovel (𝔗 Jer יָעֵי Ex 27:3)—pl. הַיָּעִים Ex 38:3 + 7 times; יָעָיו 27:3;—utensils for cleaning altar, shovels Ex 27:3; 38:3 Nu 4:14 (all P), 1 K 7:40, 45; 2 K 25:14; 2 Ch 4:11, 16; Je 52:18 (only in lists of utensils).

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Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 9 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «יָעֶה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3257/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Exodus 27:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.27.3/)

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וְעָשִׂ֤יתָ סִּֽירֹתָיו֙ לְדַשְּׁנ֔וֹ וְיָעָיו֙ וּמִזְרְקֹתָ֔יו וּמִזְלְגֹתָ֖יו וּמַחְתֹּתָ֑יו לְכָל־כֵּלָ֖יו תַּעֲשֶׂ֥ה נְחֹֽשֶׁת׃

*Word for word:* and you.will.make pots its to take away.its.fatty.ashes and shovels its and bowls its and forks its and fire-pans its to all articles its you.will.make bronze

*JPS 1917:* And thou shalt make its pots to take away its ashes, and its shovels, and its basins, and its flesh-hooks, and its fire-pans; all the vessels thereof thou shalt make of brass.

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[2 Kings 25:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.25.14/)

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וְאֶת־הַסִּירֹ֨ת וְאֶת־הַיָּעִ֜ים וְאֶת־הַֽמְזַמְּר֣וֹת וְאֶת־הַכַּפּ֗וֹת וְאֵ֨ת כָּל־כְּלֵ֧י הַנְּחֹ֛שֶׁת אֲשֶׁ֥ר יְשָֽׁרְתוּ־בָ֖ם לָקָֽחוּ׃

*Word for word:* and (et) the pots and (et) the shovels and (et) the snuffers and (et) the pans and (et) all the.articles of.(the) bronze which people.served with them they.took.away

*JPS 1917:* And the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the pans, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away.

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