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title: יְשִׁימוֹן — waste · The Tanakh dictionary
description: יְשִׁימוֹן (3452), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 13 times: waste. BDB 1906: n.m. waste, wilderness. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# יְשִׁימוֹן

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«יְשִׁימוֹן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **waste** — 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:** 13 times · **Key:** 3452 · **BDB:** יְשִׁימוֹן

### Glosses

Jeshimon (6); a.desolate.place (6); of.a.desolate.place (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

waste [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3452/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. waste, wilderness [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3452/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. waste, wilderness;—abs. יְשִׁימוֹן 1 S 23:19 + 5 times; יְשִׁימֹן Nu 21:20 + 3 times; יְשִׁמוֹן Is 43:19; יְשִׁמֹן Dt 32:10; cstr. יְשִׁימוֹן ψ 107:4;—waste, wilderness: c. art., alm. n.pr. Nu 21:20 (commanded by Pisgah), 23:28 (by Peʿor; both JE), frequented by David as an outlaw 1 S 23:19, 24; 26:1, 3. Probably some part of the wilderness of Judah, bordering on Dead Sea (ConderTent Work, ch. 15; BuhlGeogr. § 61); according to others, at least in Nu. (v. Di), part of the ʿArábah NE. of the Dead Sea (in which was בֵּית הַיְשִׁימֹת Nu 33:49 al.) without art., a waste or wilderness (only poet.), of scene of Israel’s wanderings (after the Exodus), בְּתֹהוּ יְלֵל יְשׁ׳ Dt 32:10 (‖ בְּאֶרֶץ מִדְבָּר), ψ 68:8; 78:40; 106:14; with ref. to returning exiles Is 43:19, 20; בִּי׳דֶּרֶךְ ψ 107:4 in the waste (desert) a way (cf. 𝔊 𝔖).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 13 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «יְשִׁימוֹן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3452/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 78:40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.78.40/)

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כַּ֭מָּה יַמְר֣וּהוּ בַמִּדְבָּ֑ר יַ֝עֲצִיב֗וּהוּ בִּֽישִׁימֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* how often! they rebelled.against.him in the wilderness they grieved.him in a.desolate.place

*JPS 1917:* How oft did they rebel against Him in the wilderness, and grieve Him in the desert!

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[Psalms 106:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.106.14/)

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וַיִּתְאַוּ֣וּ תַ֭אֲוָה בַּמִּדְבָּ֑ר וַיְנַסּוּ־אֵ֝֗ל בִּֽישִׁימֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* and they.craved a.craving in the wilderness and they.put.to.the.test God in a.desolate.place

*JPS 1917:* But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tried God in the desert.

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