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title: יָעַז — a barbarous · The Tanakh dictionary
description: יָעַז (3267), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: a barbarous. BDB 1906: vb. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# יָעַז

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«יָעַז» in the Tanakh dictionary: **a barbarous** — 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:** 3267 · **BDB:** יָעַז

### Glosses

barbarous (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

a barbarous [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3267/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3267/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. only Pt. as adj. (precise meaning dub.; Arabic وَعَزَ is give a nod or sign, then command, whence Heb. might have meaning nodding, making signs (not intelligibly speaking), so Hi—Che barbarous, De ‘ungebergid’—which context favours, or arrogant; Thes proposes durus, saevus, and comp. עזז)—in phr. עַם נוֹעָז Is 33:19 a barbarous (?) people, of foreign invader.

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «יָעַז» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3267/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 33:19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.33.19/)

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אֶת־עַ֥ם נוֹעָ֖ז לֹ֣א תִרְאֶ֑ה עַ֣ם עִמְקֵ֤י שָׂפָה֙ מִשְּׁמ֔וֹעַ נִלְעַ֥ג לָשׁ֖וֹן אֵ֥ין בִּינָֽה׃

*Word for word:* (et) a.people barbarous not you.will.see a.people \[too\].deep of.language for hearing stammering of.tongue there.\[is\].not understanding

*JPS 1917:* Thou shalt not see the fierce people; a people of a deep speech that thou canst not perceive, of a stammering tongue that thou canst not understand.

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