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title: עוּת — to help · The Tanakh dictionary
description: עוּת (5790), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: to help. BDB 1906: vb. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# עוּת

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«עוּת» in the Tanakh dictionary: **to help** — 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:** 5790 · **BDB:** עוּת

### Glosses

help (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

to help [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5790/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5790/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. very dub.; only in לָדַעַת לָעוּת אֶת־יָעֵף דָּבָר Is 50:4 usually to help, so Ges Del Di RyKau; al., but in that case an Aramaism (Aramaic עות = Arabic غاث, q.v. sub עוּשׁ); text prob. corrupt, 𝔊 OortTh Times 1891, 469 לְעִתּוֹ, and del. אֶת־יָעֵף; Klo CheComm. לִרְעוֹת ‘teach, edify,’ Gr לַעֲנוֹת, CheHpt. לְהַחֲיוֹת.

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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 (10 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (7 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «עוּת» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5790/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 50:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.50.4/)

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אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהֹוִ֗ה נָ֤תַן לִי֙ לְשׁ֣וֹן לִמּוּדִ֔ים לָדַ֛עַת לָע֥וּת אֶת־יָעֵ֖ף דָּבָ֑ר יָעִ֣יר ׀ בַּבֹּ֣קֶר בַּבֹּ֗קֶר יָעִ֥יר לִי֙ אֹ֔זֶן לִשְׁמֹ֖עַ כַּלִּמּוּדִֽים׃

*Word for word:* Lord \[the\] Yahweh he.has.given to me a.tongue of.disciples to know to help (et) \[the\].weary a.word he.awakens in the morning in the morning he.awakens my ear to hear like (the) disciples

*JPS 1917:* The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of them that are taught, that I should know how to sustain with words him that is weary; He wakeneth morning by morning, He wakeneth mine ear to hear as they that are taught.

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