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title: לֵחַ — moisture · The Tanakh dictionary
description: לֵחַ (3893), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: moisture. BDB 1906: n.m. moisture, freshness. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# לֵחַ

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«לֵחַ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **moisture** — 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:** 3893 · **BDB:** לֵחַ

### Glosses

vigor (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

moisture [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3893/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. moisture, freshness [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3893/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. moisture, freshness (i. e. force, vigour);—sf. וְלֹא נָס לֵחֹה Dt 34:7 and his freshness had not fled; read בְּלֵחָמוֹ or בְּלֵחוֹ for בִּלַחְמוֹ Je 11:19 (v. לֶחֶם ad fin.; on Zp 1:17 v. לְחוּם).

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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 (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «לֵחַ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3893/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Deuteronomy 34:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.34.7/)

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וּמֹשֶׁ֗ה בֶּן־מֵאָ֧ה וְעֶשְׂרִ֛ים שָׁנָ֖ה בְּמֹת֑וֹ לֹֽא־כָהֲתָ֥ה עֵינ֖וֹ וְלֹא־נָ֥ס לֵחֹֽה׃

*Word for word:* and Moses \[was\].a.son of.one.hundred and twenty year\[s\] when died he not it.had.grown.dim eye his and not it.had.fled vigor his

*JPS 1917:* And Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.

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