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title: עֵינָן — Enan. Compare · The Tanakh dictionary
description: עֵינָן (5881), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 5 times: Enan. Compare. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# עֵינָן

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«עֵינָן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Enan. Compare** — 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:** 5 times · **Key:** 5881 · **BDB:** עֵינָן

### Glosses

of.Enan (5)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Enan. Compare [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5881/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.m. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5881/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. Αιναν, name in Naphtali Nu 1:15; 2:29; 7:78, 83; 10:27.—Vid. also חֲצַר עֵינוֹן.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (12 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «עֵינָן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5881/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Numbers 1:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.1.15/)

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לְנַ֨פְתָּלִ֔י אֲחִירַ֖ע בֶּן־עֵינָֽן׃

*Word for word:* for Naphtali Ahira the.son of.Enan

*JPS 1917:* Of Naphtali, Ahira the son of Enan.'

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[Numbers 10:27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.10.27/)

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וְעַ֨ל־צְבָ֔א מַטֵּ֖ה בְּנֵ֣י נַפְתָּלִ֑י אֲחִירַ֖ע בֶּן־עֵינָֽן׃

*Word for word:* and.\[was\] over the.military.group of.the.tribe of.the.descendants of.Naphtali Ahira the.son of.Enan

*JPS 1917:* And over the host of the tribe of the children of Naphtali was Ahira the son of Enan.

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