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title: עַוִּים — Avim · The Tanakh dictionary
description: עַוִּים (5761), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: Avim. BDB 1906: n.pr. gent. loc. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# עַוִּים

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«עַוִּים» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Avim** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 5761 · **BDB:** עַוִּים

### Glosses

Avvites (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Avim [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5761/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr. gent. loc. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5761/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr. gent. הָע׳ people on SW. coast of Mediterr. before the כַּפְתֹּרִים (q.v.) came Dt 2:23, and remaining thereafter Jos 13:3 (D2), 𝔊 Ευαιοι. loc. הָע׳ city in Benj. Jos 18:23 (= הָעַי?) 𝔊 Αιειν, Αυειμ.—Vid. also \[עַוִּי\] supr.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «עַוִּים» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5761/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Joshua 18:23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.18.23/)

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וְהָעַוִּ֥ים וְהַפָּרָ֖ה וְעָפְרָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and (the) Avvites and (the) Parah and Ophrah

*JPS 1917:* and Avvim, and Parah, and Ophrah;

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