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title: עֲגָבִים — sensuous · The Tanakh dictionary
description: עֲגָבִים (5690), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: sensuous. BDB 1906: sensuous) love. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# עֲגָבִים

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«עֲגָבִים» in the Tanakh dictionary: **sensuous** — 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:** 5690 · **BDB:** עָגָב

### Glosses

lustful.desires (1); of.lustful.desires (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

sensuous [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5690/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

sensuous) love [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5690/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] (sensuous) love (on form cf. LagBN 143);—only pl. intens. שִׁיר עֲגָבִים Ez 33:32 thou art to them as a love-song.—For עֲגָבִים v 31 read כְּזָבִים 𝔊 𝔖 Co Berthol Toy.

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Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «עֲגָבִים» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5690/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Ezekiel 33:32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.33.32/)

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וְהִנְּךָ֤ לָהֶם֙ כְּשִׁ֣יר עֲגָבִ֔ים יְפֵ֥ה ק֖וֹל וּמֵטִ֣ב נַגֵּ֑ן וְשָֽׁמְעוּ֙ אֶת־דְּבָרֶ֔יךָ וְעֹשִׂ֥ים אֵינָ֖ם אוֹתָֽם׃

*Word for word:* and there you to them \[are\].like a.song of.lustful.desires \[one\].beautiful of.voice and \[one.who\].does.well to.play and they.hear (et) words your and.\[are\] doing not they them

*JPS 1917:* and, lo, thou art unto them as a love song of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument; so they hear thy words, but they do them not —

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[Ezekiel 33:31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.33.31/)

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וְיָב֣וֹאוּ אֵ֠לֶיךָ כִּמְבוֹא־עָ֞ם וְיֵשְׁב֤וּ לְפָנֶ֙יךָ֙ עַמִּ֔י וְשָֽׁמְעוּ֙ אֶת־דְּבָרֶ֔יךָ וְאוֹתָ֖ם לֹ֣א יַֽעֲשׂ֑וּ כִּֽי־עֲגָבִ֤ים בְּפִיהֶם֙ הֵ֣מָּה עֹשִׂ֔ים אַחֲרֵ֥י בִצְעָ֖ם לִבָּ֥ם הֹלֵֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* and they.come to you like.\[the\] coming of.a.people and they.sit before you people my and they.hear (et) words your and them not they.do (dm) lustful.desires in mouth their they \[are\].doing after gain their.unjust heart their \[is\].going

*JPS 1917:* and come unto thee as the people cometh, and sit before thee as My people, and hear thy words, but do them not — for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness;

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