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title: נִין — offspring · The Tanakh dictionary
description: נִין (5209), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: offspring. BDB 1906: offspring, posterity. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# נִין

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«נִין» in the Tanakh dictionary: **offspring** — 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:** 3 times · **Key:** 5209 · **BDB:** נִין

### Glosses

posterity (3)

### Meaning (OSHB)

offspring [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5209/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

offspring, posterity [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5209/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] offspring, posterity;—abs. Jb 18:19 Is 14:22; sf. נִינִי Gn 21:23 (all ‖ נֶכֶד).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «נִין» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5209/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 18:19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.18.19/)

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לֹ֘א נִ֤ין ל֣וֹ וְלֹא־נֶ֣כֶד בְּעַמּ֑וֹ וְאֵ֥ין שָׂ֝רִ֗יד בִּמְגוּרָֽיו׃

*Word for word:* not posterity \[belongs\].to him and not progeny \[is\].among people his and there.\[is\].not a.survivor in sojourning-places his

*JPS 1917:* He shall have neither son nor son's son among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.

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[Isaiah 14:22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.14.22/)

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וְקַמְתִּ֣י עֲלֵיהֶ֔ם נְאֻ֖ם יְהוָ֣ה צְבָא֑וֹת וְהִכְרַתִּ֨י לְבָבֶ֜ל שֵׁ֥ם וּשְׁאָ֛ר וְנִ֥ין וָנֶ֖כֶד נְאֻם־יְהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and I.will.rise.up on them the.utterance of.Yahweh of.hosts and I.will.cut.off to Babylon name and remnant and posterity and progeny the.utterance of.Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* And I will rise up against them, saith the LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babylon name and remnant, and offshoot and offspring, saith the LORD.

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