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title: אָמֹץ — strong · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אָמֹץ (554), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: strong. BDB 1906: adj. strong. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אָמֹץ

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«אָמֹץ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **strong** — 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:** 554 · **BDB:** אָמֹץ

### Glosses

\[horses\] (1); strong (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

strong [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/554/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj. strong [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/554/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj. strong, only pl. אֲמֻצִּים of horses Zc 6:3, 7 (in v 7 perhaps read אֲדֻמִּים, cf. v 2, \& Hi; see another view in LagBN 29).

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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 (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אָמֹץ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/554/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Zechariah 6:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.6.3/)

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וּבַמֶּרְכָּבָ֥ה הַשְּׁלִשִׁ֖ית סוּסִ֣ים לְבָנִ֑ים וּבַמֶּרְכָּבָה֙ הָרְבִעִ֔ית סוּסִ֥ים בְּרֻדִּ֖ים אֲמֻצִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* and.\[were\] with the chariot (the) third horses white and.\[were\] with the chariot (the) fourth horses dappled strong

*JPS 1917:* and in the third chariot white horses; and in the fourth chariot grizzled bay horses.

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[Zechariah 6:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.6.7/)

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וְהָאֲמֻצִּ֣ים יָצְא֗וּ וַיְבַקְשׁוּ֙ לָלֶ֙כֶת֙ לְהִתְהַלֵּ֣ךבָּאָ֔רֶץ וַיֹּ֕אמֶר לְכ֖וּ הִתְהַלְּכ֣וּ בָאָ֑רֶץ וַתִּתְהַלַּ֖כְנָה בָּאָֽרֶץ׃

*Word for word:* and the.strong \[horses\] they.have.gone.out and they.have.sought to go to go.about on the earth and he.said go go.about on the earth and they.went.about on the earth

*JPS 1917:* and the bay went forth'. And they sought to go that they might walk to and fro through the earth; and he said: 'Get you hence, walk to and fro through the earth.' So they walked to and fro through the earth.

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