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title: כֶּסֶא — full moon · The Tanakh dictionary
description: כֶּסֶא (3677), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: full moon. BDB 1906: full moon. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# כֶּסֶא

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«כֶּסֶא» in the Tanakh dictionary: **full moon** — 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:** 2 times · **Key:** 3677 · **BDB:** כֶּ֫סֶא

### Glosses

moon (1); the.full.moon (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

full moon [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3677/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

full moon [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3677/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** Pr 7:20, כֶּ֫סֶה ψ 81:4 n.\[m.\] full moon (cf. Aramaic ܟܶܣܐܴܐ; orig. dubious, cf. LagSymm. i. 93; perhaps Assyrian loan-word; cf. Assyrian kuŝeu, headdress or cap, = agû, id., and also full moon (as tiara of moon-god?), DlHWB, sub kusêu, kubšu, agû; yet v. Brock)—לְיוֹם הַכּ׳ Pr 7:20; as a feast-day, בַּכּ׳ ψ 81:4 (opp. בַּחֹדֶשׁ, at the new moon).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «כֶּסֶא» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3677/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 81:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.81.4/)

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תִּקְע֣וּ בַחֹ֣דֶשׁ שׁוֹפָ֑ר בַּ֝כֵּ֗סֶה לְי֣וֹם חַגֵּֽנוּ׃

*Word for word:* blow at the.new moon a.ram's.horn at the.full moon to the.day our.festival our

*JPS 1917:* Blow the horn at the new moon, at the full moon for our feast-day.

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[Proverbs 7:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.7.20/)

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צְֽרוֹר־הַ֭כֶּסֶף לָקַ֣ח בְּיָד֑וֹ לְי֥וֹם הַ֝כֵּ֗סֶא יָבֹ֥א בֵיתֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* the.bag of.(the) money he.has.taken in hand his to the.day of the.full.moon he.will.come house his

*JPS 1917:* He hath taken the bag of money with him; he will come home at the full moon.'

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