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title: עֹופֶרֶת — lead · The Tanakh dictionary
description: עֹופֶרֶת (5777), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 9 times: lead. BDB 1906: n.m. lead. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# עֹופֶרֶת

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«עֹופֶרֶת» in the Tanakh dictionary: **lead** — 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:** 9 times · **Key:** 5777 · **BDB:** עֹפֶרֶת

### Glosses

lead (8); of.lead (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

lead [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5777/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. lead [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5777/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Je 6:29(si vera l. Qr) lead (√ dub.; prob. foreign word; cf. 𝔗 אֲבָרָא lead, Syriac ܐܰܒܳܪܳܐ, and (as Aramaic loan-word) Arabic أَبَار \[v. Dozy\], Frä152; perhaps also Assyrian abaru, a metal, magnesite according to HilprAssyriaca i (1894), 80 ff. Hpt1b. 83);—כִּכַּר ע׳ Zc 5:7 a round weight (disc) of lead, אֶבֶן־הָעו׳ v 5; with other metals (v. בְּדִיל): עוֹ׳ Ez 22:18, 20; 27:12, הָעֹפָ֑רֶת Nu 31:22 (P); עֹפ׳ also Jb 19:24 (with which chiselled letters are filled according to Di and most; Bu reads בְּע׳ in \[a tablet of\] lead); also (as flux) Je 6:29 (reading Qr; so Gf Co; emend. Gie); עוֹ׳ in sim. Ex 15:10 (song).

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «עֹופֶרֶת» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5777/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 19:24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.19.24/)

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בְּעֵט־בַּרְזֶ֥ל וְעֹפָ֑רֶת לָ֝עַ֗ד בַּצּ֥וּר יֵחָצְבֽוּן׃

*Word for word:* with a.stylus of.iron and lead forever in the rock they will.be.engraved

*JPS 1917:* That with an iron pen and lead they were graven in the rock for ever!

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[Exodus 15:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.15.10/)

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נָשַׁ֥פְתָּ בְרוּחֲךָ֖ כִּסָּ֣מוֹ יָ֑ם צָֽלֲלוּ֙ כַּֽעוֹפֶ֔רֶת בְּמַ֖יִם אַדִּירִֽים׃

*Word for word:* you.blew with breath your it covered.them \[the\].sea they.sank like (the) lead in.\[the\] waters mighty

*JPS 1917:* Thou didst blow with Thy wind, the sea covered them; they sank as lead in the mighty waters.

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