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title: נָזִיד — thing sodden · The Tanakh dictionary
description: נָזִיד (5138), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 6 times: thing sodden. BDB 1906: thing sodden or boiled, pottage Hiph. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# נָזִיד

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«נָזִיד» in the Tanakh dictionary: **thing sodden** — 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:** 6 times · **Key:** 5138 · **BDB:** נָזִיד

### Glosses

cooked.food (3); the.cooked.food (2); food (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

thing sodden [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5138/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

thing sodden or boiled, pottage Hiph. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5138/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] thing sodden or boiled, pottage; abs. נ׳ Gn 25:29 + 4 times; cstr. נְזִיד Gn 25:34;—a kind of boiled leguminous food, obj. of וַיָּ֫זֶד Gn 25:29 (v. זוּד Hiph.); defined v 34 as נְזִיד עֲדָשִׁים (v. עדשׁ); obj. of בַּשֵּׁל 2 K 4:38; boiled in a סִיר v 39 cf. v 40; mentioned, appar. as a common food, Hg 2:12.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «נָזִיד» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5138/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Genesis 25:29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.25.29/)

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וַיָּ֥זֶד יַעֲקֹ֖ב נָזִ֑יד וַיָּבֹ֥א עֵשָׂ֛ו מִן־הַשָּׂדֶ֖ה וְה֥וּא עָיֵֽף׃

*Word for word:* and he.had.cooked Jacob cooked.food and he.came Esau from the field and he \[was\].exhausted

*JPS 1917:* And Jacob sod pottage; and Esau came in from the field, and he was faint.

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[Genesis 25:34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.25.34/)

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וְיַעֲקֹ֞ב נָתַ֣ן לְעֵשָׂ֗ו לֶ֚חֶם וּנְזִ֣יד עֲדָשִׁ֔ים וַיֹּ֣אכַל וַיֵּ֔שְׁתְּ וַיָּ֖קָם וַיֵּלַ֑ךְ וַיִּ֥בֶז עֵשָׂ֖ו אֶת־הַבְּכֹרָֽה׃ס

*Word for word:* and Jacob he.gave to Esau bread and cooked.food of.lentils and he.ate and he.drank and he.arose and he.went and he.despised Esau (et) the birthright

*JPS 1917:* And Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentils; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way. So Esau despised his birthright.

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