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title: נָבַח — bark · The Tanakh dictionary
description: נָבַח (5024), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: bark. BDB 1906: vb. bark. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# נָבַח

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«נָבַח» in the Tanakh dictionary: **bark** — 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:** 5024 · **BDB:** נָבַח

### Glosses

bark (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

bark [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5024/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. bark [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5024/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. bark (of dogs) (NH id.; Arabic نَبَحَ; Ethiopic ነብሐ:; Aramaic ܢܒܰܚ, נְבַח);— Inf. cstr. only כֻּלָּם כְּלָבִים אִלְּמִים לֹא יוּכְלוּ לִנְבֹּחַ Is 56:10 fig. of helpless prophets.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «נָבַח» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5024/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 56:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.56.10/)

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צֹפָ֞יו עִוְרִ֤ים כֻּלָּם֙ לֹ֣א יָדָ֔עוּ כֻּלָּם֙ כְּלָבִ֣ים אִלְּמִ֔ים לֹ֥א יוּכְל֖וּ לִנְבֹּ֑חַ הֹזִים֙ שֹֽׁכְבִ֔ים אֹהֲבֵ֖י לָנֽוּם׃

*Word for word:* watchmen its \[are\].blind of.them all not they.know of.them all \[are\].dogs dumb not they.are.able to bark \[they.are\].dreaming \[they.are\].lying.down \[they.are\].loving (of).to slumber

*JPS 1917:* His watchmen are all blind, without knowledge; they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; raving, lying down, loving to slumber.

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