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title: עוּד — return · The Tanakh dictionary
description: עוּד (5749), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 4 times: return. BDB 1906: vb. return, go about, repeat, do again Polʿēl Hithpoʿl. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# עוּד

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«עוּד» in the Tanakh dictionary: **return** — 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:** 4 times · **Key:** 5749 · **BDB:** עוּד

### Glosses

\[is\].helping.up (1); he.helps.up (1); they (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

return [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5749/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. return, go about, repeat, do again Polʿēl Hithpoʿl [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5749/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. prob. return, go about, repeat, do again (Arabic عود, عَادَ return, do again, iv. restore, also say again, iterate, عَادَةٌ habit; Ethiopic ዖደ: turn about, surrouend, ዐውድ: circuit, circle; Syriac Pa. ܥܰܝܶܕ accustom, Ethpe. Aph. be accustomed, ܥܝܳܕܳܐ usage, ceremong, ܥܺܐܕܳܐ festival (Brock), whence Arabic عِيدٌ id., as loan-word, Frä276; Palm. עידא usage Lzb337 Cook90; NH עֵד, and especially עֵדוּת = BH, also עִיד festival, 𝔗 עִידָא; cf. prob. Assyrian Shaph. uš-id, he solemnly affirmed DlHWB 32);—only intens.: surround (cf. Ethiopic), Pf. 3 ms. sf. עִוְּדֻנִי ψ 119:61 (cf. סְבָבוּנִי 18:6). Polʿēl, restore, relieve (cf. Arabic iv.), Impf. 3 ms. יְעוֹדֵד, c. acc. pers. ψ 146:9 (‖ שָׁמַר), ptcp. m. s. מְעוֹדֵד 147:6. Hithpoʿl, be restored, Impf. 1 pl. וַנִּתְעוֹדָ֑ד ψ 20:9 (+ קוּם, opp. נָפַל; 𝔊 ἀνωρθώθημεν).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (16 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (12 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «עוּד» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5749/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 147:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.147.6/)

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מְעוֹדֵ֣ד עֲנָוִ֣ים יְהוָ֑ה מַשְׁפִּ֖יל רְשָׁעִ֣ים עֲדֵי־אָֽרֶץ׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].helping.up humble.\[people\] Yahweh \[he.is\].bringing.low wicked.\[people\] to \[the\].ground

*JPS 1917:* The LORD upholdeth the humble; He bringeth the wicked down to the ground.

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[Psalms 119:61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.61/)

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חֶבְלֵ֣י רְשָׁעִ֣ים עִוְּדֻ֑נִי תּֽ֝וֹרָתְךָ֗ לֹ֣א שָׁכָֽחְתִּי׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].ropes of.wicked.\[people\] they have.surrounded.me law your not I.have.forgotten

*JPS 1917:* The bands of the wicked have enclosed me; but I have not forgotten Thy law.

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