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title: אָלַץ — urge · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אָלַץ (509), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: urge. BDB 1906: vb. urge. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אָלַץ

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«אָלַץ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **urge** — 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:** 509 · **BDB:** אָלַץ

### Glosses

she (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

urge [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/509/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. urge [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/509/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. urge (Aramaic ܐܶܠܰܨ, Sam. ࠀࠓࠑ ) 3 fs. וַתְּאַלַצֵהוּ Ju 16:16 (‖ הֵצִיקָה לוֹ בִדְבָרֶיהָ).

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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 «אָלַץ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/509/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Judges 16:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.16.16/)

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וַ֠יְהִי כִּֽי־הֵצִ֨יקָה לּ֧וֹ בִדְבָרֶ֛יהָ כָּל־הַיָּמִ֖ים וַתְּאַֽלֲצֵ֑הוּ וַתִּקְצַ֥ר נַפְשׁ֖וֹ לָמֽוּת׃

*Word for word:* and it.was (dm) she.pressed (to) him with words her all the days and she urged.him and it.was.short self his to die

*JPS 1917:* And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, that his soul was vexed unto death.

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