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title: אֻמָּה — tribe · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אֻמָּה (523), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 7 times: tribe. BDB 1906: n.f. tribe, people. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אֻמָּה

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«אֻמָּה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **tribe** — 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:** 7 times · **Key:** 523 · **BDB:** אֻמָּה

### Glosses

peoples (3); nations (2); of.tribes (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

tribe [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/523/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. tribe, people [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/523/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. tribe, people (Arabic أُمَّةٌ; Assyrian ummatu cf. JenKosmol. 336, Aramaic ܐܘܽܡܬܳܐ, אוּמָּא) only pl. אֻמּוֹת Nu 25:15; אֻמִּים ψ 117:1; sf. אֻמֹּתָם Gn 25:16;—of tribes of Ishmaelites Gn 25:16; of Midian (‖ בֵּית־אָב) Nu 25:15; ‖ גּוֹיִם ψ 117:1.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אֻמָּה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/523/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 149:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.149.7/)

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לַעֲשׂ֣וֹת נְ֭קָמָה בַּגּוֹיִ֑ם תּֽ֝וֹכֵחֹ֗ת בַּל־אֻמִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* to execute vengeance on the nations rebukes not peoples

*JPS 1917:* To execute vengeance upon the nations, and chastisements upon the peoples;

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[Psalms 44:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.44.15/)

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תְּשִׂימֵ֣נוּ מָ֭שָׁל בַּגּוֹיִ֑ם מְנֽוֹד־רֹ֝֗אשׁ בַּל־אֻמִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* you have.made.us a.byword among the nations a.shaking of.head not peoples

*JPS 1917:* Thou makest us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.

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