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title: נוּשׁ — be sick · The Tanakh dictionary
description: נוּשׁ (5136), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: be sick. BDB 1906: vb. be sick. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# נוּשׁ

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«נוּשׁ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **be sick** — 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:** 5136 · **BDB:** נוּשׁ

### Glosses

I (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

be sick [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5136/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. be sick [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5136/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. be sick, si vera l. ( = I. אנשׁ according to Thes who comp. Syriac ܢܰܫ );— Impf. 1 s. וָֽאָנוּשָׁה ψ 69:21, but read perhaps \[מַכַּת נַפְשִׁי\] וַאֲנוּשָׁה (‖ חֶרְפָּה שָֽׁבְרָה לִבִּי), Bi Che crit. n., cf. 𝔊, v. I. אנשׁ; or (קַוֹּן) וְאָנוּשׁ הוּא קַוֵּה (with different word-division), Weir Acad. 1870, 257 (who cp. Je 17:9; 8:15).

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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 (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «נוּשׁ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5136/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 69:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.69.21/)

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חֶרְפָּ֤ה ׀ שָֽׁבְרָ֥ה לִבִּ֗י וָֽאָ֫נ֥וּשָׁה וָאֲקַוֶּ֣ה לָנ֣וּד וָאַ֑יִן וְ֝לַמְנַחֲמִ֗ים וְלֹ֣א מָצָֽאתִי׃

*Word for word:* reproach it.has.broken heart my and I have.become.sick and I.waited to show.sympathy and there.\[was\].not and for (the) comforters and not I.found.\[them\]

*JPS 1917:* Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am sore sick; and I looked for some to show compassion, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.

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