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title: עִיט — dart greedily · The Tanakh dictionary
description: עִיט (5860), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: dart greedily. BDB 1906: vb.denom. dart greedily. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# עִיט

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«עִיט» in the Tanakh dictionary: **dart greedily** — 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:** 3 times · **Key:** 5860 · **BDB:** עִיט²

### Glosses

did.you.rush? (1); he.shouted (1); it.rushed (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

dart greedily [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5860/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb.denom. dart greedily [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5860/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb.denom. dart greedily (like a bird of prey);— Impf. 3 ms. וַיַּ֫עַט Qr (Kt erron. ויעשׂ) 1 S 14:32 and the people darted greedily upon the spoil (אֶל־הַשָּׁלָל), so 2 ms. וַתַּ֫עַט 15:19 (on forms v. Ges§ 72 ff.).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «עִיט» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5860/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Samuel 15:19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.15.19/)

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וְלָ֥מָּה לֹא־שָׁמַ֖עְתָּ בְּק֣וֹל יְהוָ֑ה וַתַּ֙עַט֙ אֶל־הַשָּׁלָ֔ל וַתַּ֥עַשׂ הָרַ֖ע בְּעֵינֵ֥י יְהוָֽה׃ס

*Word for word:* and why? not did.you.listen to the.voice of.Yahweh and did.you.rush? to the plunder and did.you.do? the evil in the.eyes of.Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* Wherefore then didst thou not hearken to the voice of the LORD, but didst fly upon the spoil, and didst that which was evil in the sight of the LORD?'

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[1 Samuel 14:32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.14.32/)

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וַיַּ֤עַט הָעָם֙ אֶל־הַשָּׁלָ֔ל וַיִּקְח֨וּ צֹ֧אן וּבָקָ֛ר וּבְנֵ֥י בָקָ֖ר וַיִּשְׁחֲטוּ־אָ֑רְצָה וַיֹּ֥אכַל הָעָ֖ם עַל־הַדָּֽם׃

*Word for word:* and it.rushed the people to the plunder and they.took sheep and cattle and young.ones of.\[the\].herd and they.slaughtered.\[them\] ground to.\[the\] and it.ate.\[them\] the people with the blood

*JPS 1917:* And the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew them on the ground; and the people did eat them with the blood.

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