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title: אֵטוּן — thread · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אֵטוּן (330), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: thread. BDB 1906: thread, yarn. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אֵטוּן

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«אֵטוּן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **thread** — 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:** 330 · **BDB:** אֵטוּן

### Glosses

linen (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

thread [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/330/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

thread, yarn [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/330/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] thread, yarn (etym. unknown; on form v. Ges 84 a. 12. R. Talm. אֵטוּנָא, אַטּוּנָא, cord, rope; so 𝔗) cstr. א׳ מִצְרַיִם Pr 7:16.

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אֵטוּן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/330/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Proverbs 7:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.7.16/)

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מַ֭רְבַדִּים רָבַ֣דְתִּי עַרְשִׂ֑י חֲ֝טֻב֗וֹת אֵט֥וּן מִצְרָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* coverings I.have.spread couch my colored.fabrics linen of.Egypt

*JPS 1917:* I have decked my couch with coverlets, with striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt.

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