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title: נֵבֶךְ — spring · The Tanakh dictionary
description: נֵבֶךְ (5033), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: spring. BDB 1906: spring. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# נֵבֶךְ

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«נֵבֶךְ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **spring** — 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:** 5033 · **BDB:** נֵ֫בֶךְ

### Glosses

\[the\].springs (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

spring [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5033/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

spring [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5033/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] spring (si vera l.) (√ unknown);—only pl. cstr. נִבְכֵי־יָם Jb 38:16 the springs, sources of the ocean (‖ חֵ֫קֶר תְּהוֹם);—Ol Siegf נִבְלֵי; Bu suggests נבעי = מַכֻּעֵי as poss.; but Gr Perles read נִבְכֵי Jb 28:11, also, for Mass. מִבְּכִי, cf. נָהָר 2.

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «נֵבֶךְ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5033/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 38:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.38.16/)

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הֲ֭בָאתָ עַד־נִבְכֵי־יָ֑ם וּבְחֵ֥קֶר תְּ֝ה֗וֹם הִתְהַלָּֽכְתָּ׃

*Word for word:* have you.gone? to \[the\].springs of.\[the\].sea and in the.searching of.the.deep have.you.walked.about?

*JPS 1917:* Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? Or hast thou walked in the recesses of the deep?

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