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title: אָמִיר — top · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אָמִיר (534), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: top. BDB 1906: n.m. top, summit. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אָמִיר

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«אָמִיר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **top** — 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:** 2 times · **Key:** 534 · **BDB:** אָמִיר

### Glosses

of.\[the\].top (1); top (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

top [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/534/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. top, summit [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/534/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. top, summit, of tree Is 17:6; of mt. v 9 (? so Ew Kn De Di; Lag Che Brd Or foll. 𝔊 \& read הָאֱמֹרִי); Pl. cstr. אֲמִרֵי Gn 49:21 (so read for אִמְרֵי, Ew Di al., cf. also i. אֵלָה p. 18).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (8 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אָמִיר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/534/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 17:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.17.6/)

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וְנִשְׁאַר־בּ֤וֹ עֽוֹלֵלֹת֙ כְּנֹ֣קֶף זַ֔יִת שְׁנַ֧יִם שְׁלֹשָׁ֛ה גַּרְגְּרִ֖ים בְּרֹ֣אשׁ אָמִ֑יר אַרְבָּעָ֣ה חֲמִשָּׁ֗ה בִּסְעִפֶ֙יהָ֙ פֹּֽרִיָּ֔ה נְאֻם־יְהוָ֖ה אֱלֹהֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ס

*Word for word:* and it.will.be.left in it gleanings like.\[the\] beating of.an.olive.tree two three olives at.\[the\] top of.\[the\].top four five on branches its fruit-bearing the.utterance of.Yahweh the.God of.Israel

*JPS 1917:* Yet there shall be left therein gleanings, as at the beating of an olive-tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the branches of the fruitful tree, saith the LORD, the God of Israel.

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[Isaiah 17:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.17.9/)

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בַּיּ֨וֹם הַה֜וּא יִהְי֣וּ ׀ עָרֵ֣י מָעֻזּ֗וֹ כַּעֲזוּבַ֤ת הַחֹ֙רֶשׁ֙ וְהָ֣אָמִ֔יר אֲשֶׁ֣ר עָזְב֔וּ מִפְּנֵ֖י בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וְהָיְתָ֖ה שְׁמָמָֽה׃

*Word for word:* in the day (the) that they.will.be the.cities his.refuge his like the.forsaken.\[place\] of the.forest and the top which they.abandoned from before the.people of.Israel and it.will.be a.desolation

*JPS 1917:* In that day shall his strong cities be as the forsaken places, which were forsaken from before the children of Israel, after the manner of woods and lofty forests; and it shall be a desolation.

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