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title: נָוָה — pasture · The Tanakh dictionary
description: נָוָה (4999), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 13 times: pasture. BDB 1906: n.f. pasture, meadow. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# נָוָה

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«נָוָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **pasture** — 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:** 4999 · **BDB:** נָוָה³

### Glosses

\[the\].pastures (5); the.pastures (4); pastures (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

pasture [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/4999/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. pasture, meadow [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/4999/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. pasture, meadow;—pl. cstr. נְוֹת Zp 2:6, usually נְאוֹת ψ 23:2 + 11 times;— pasture, meadow: נ׳ הָרֹעִים Am 1:2, cf. Zp 2:6 (‖ גִּדְרוֹת צֹאן; v. also \[כָּרָה\] p. 500 supr.); especially נְאוֹת (הַ)מִּדְבָּר Je 9:9; 23:10 ψ 65:13, Jo 1:19, 20; 2:22; נ׳ דֶּשֶׁא ψ 23:2 grassy pastures; נ׳ אֱלֹהִים ψ 83:13 pastures of God, i.e. the land of Canaan, נ׳ יַעֲקֹב La 2:2; נ׳ הַשָּׁלוֹם Je 25:37 meadows of peace; נ׳ חָמָס ψ 74:20 appar. habitations (?) of violence, but read prob. גַּאֲוָה וְח׳, so Bi Che (v. 73:6).—Je 6:2 v. sub \[נָאָה\]; Jb 8:6 v. i. נָוֶה.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 12 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (16 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (11 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «נָוָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/4999/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 65:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.65.13/)

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יִ֭רְעֲפוּ נְא֣וֹת מִדְבָּ֑ר וְ֝גִ֗יל גְּבָע֥וֹת תַּחְגֹּֽרְנָה׃

*Word for word:* they.drip \[the\].pastures of.\[the\].wilderness and rejoicing \[the\].hills they.gird.on

*JPS 1917:* The pastures of the wilderness do drop; and the hills are girded with joy.

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[Psalms 83:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.83.13/)

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אֲשֶׁ֣ר אָ֭מְרוּ נִ֣ירֲשָׁה לָּ֑נוּ אֵ֝֗ת נְא֣וֹת אֱלֹהִֽים׃

*Word for word:* who they.said let.us.take.possession.of for ourselves (et) the.pastures of.God

*JPS 1917:* Who said: 'Let us take to ourselves in possession the habitations of God.'

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