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title: אִיּוֹב — Job · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אִיּוֹב (347), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 58 times: Job. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. Job. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אִיּוֹב

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«אִיּוֹב» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Job** — 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:** 58 times · **Key:** 347 · **BDB:** אִיּוֹב

### Glosses

Job (48); of.Job (6); O.Job (3)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Job [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/347/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.m. Job [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/347/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. Job (meaning unknown; Thes √ איב; obj. of enmity, cf. for pass. sense יִלּוֹד; Ew comp. Ara. أَوَّابٌ he who turns (to God); but cf. Di on 1:1; all dub. cf. LagBN 90) Jb 1:1, 5(×3), 8, 9, 14 + 48 textual Jb; Ez 14:14, 20.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (12 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (10 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אִיּוֹב» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/347/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 3:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.3.2/)

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וַיַּ֥עַן אִיּ֗וֹב וַיֹּאמַֽר׃

*Word for word:* and he.answered Job and he.said

*JPS 1917:* And Job spoke, and said:

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[Job 6:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.6.1/)

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וַיַּ֥עַן אִיּ֗וֹב וַיֹּאמַֽר׃

*Word for word:* and he.answered Job and he.said

*JPS 1917:* Then Job answered and said:

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