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title: נָשַׁת — be dry · The Tanakh dictionary
description: נָשַׁת (5405), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: be dry. BDB 1906: vb. be dry, parched. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# נָשַׁת

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«נָשַׁת» in the Tanakh dictionary: **be dry** — 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:** 5405 · **BDB:** נָשַׁת

### Glosses

it.is.dry (1); it.will.be.dry (1); they.will.be.dried.up (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

be dry [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5405/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. be dry, parched [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5405/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. be dry, parched;— Pf. 3 fs. לְשׁוֹנָם בַּצָּמָא נָשָׁ֑תָּה Is 41:17 (on D f. affect. v. Ges§ 20 i); also fig. נָֽשְׁתָה גְבוּרָתָם Je 51:30, their might is dry, i.e. fails. Pf. 3 pl. consec. וְנִשְּׁתוּ־מַיִם מֵהַיָּ֑ם Is 19:5 and water shall be dried up from the sea; cf. Impf. יִנָּֽתְשׁוּ מַיִּם Je 18:14, where read prob. יִנָּֽשְׁתוּ (Gf Gie al.).

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «נָשַׁת» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5405/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 19:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.19.5/)

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וְנִשְּׁתוּ־מַ֖יִם מֵֽהַיָּ֑ם וְנָהָ֖ר יֶחֱרַ֥ב וְיָבֵֽשׁ׃

*Word for word:* and they.will.be.dried.up waters from the sea and a.river it.will.become.dry and it.will.be.dry

*JPS 1917:* And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be drained dry,

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[Jeremiah 51:30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.51.30/)

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חָדְלוּ֩ גִבּוֹרֵ֨י בָבֶ֜ל לְהִלָּחֵ֗ם יָֽשְׁבוּ֙ בַּמְּצָד֔וֹת נָשְׁתָ֥ה גְבוּרָתָ֖ם הָי֣וּ לְנָשִׁ֑ים הִצִּ֥יתוּ מִשְׁכְּנֹתֶ֖יהָ נִשְׁבְּר֥וּ בְרִיחֶֽיהָ׃

*Word for word:* they.will.cease the.warriors of.Babylon to fight they.will.remain in the strongholds it.will.be.dry strength their they.will.become (into) women they.will.be.set.on.fire dwellings its they.will.be.broken bars its

*JPS 1917:* The mighty men of Babylon have forborne to fight, they remain in their strongholds; their might hath failed, they are become as women; her dwelling-places are set on fire; her bars are broken.

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