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title: עָמִית — associate · The Tanakh dictionary
description: עָמִית (5997), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 12 times: associate. BDB 1906: n.m. associate, fellow, relation. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# עָמִית

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«עָמִית» in the Tanakh dictionary: **associate** — 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:** 12 times · **Key:** 5997 · **BDB:** עָמִית

### Glosses

citizen (5); fellow (2); his.fellow (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

associate [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5997/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. associate, fellow, relation [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5997/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Lv 19:17; 25:15 associate, fellow, relation (perhaps orig. f. abstr. association, cf. פֶּחָה);—always sf.: גֶּבֶר עֲמִיתִי Zc 13:7 a man (who is) my fellow; elsewhere only Lv: עֲמִיתוֹ 5:21(×2); recipr. אִישׁ בַּעֲמִיתוֹ 19:11; 24:19, cf. 25:17; עֲמִיתְךָ 18:20, עֲמִיתֶ֑ךָ 19:15, 17; 25:14(×2), 15.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «עָמִית» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5997/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Leviticus 19:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.19.11/)

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לֹ֖א תִּגְנֹ֑בוּ וְלֹא־תְכַחֲשׁ֥וּ וְלֹֽא־תְשַׁקְּר֖וּ אִ֥ישׁ בַּעֲמִיתֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* not you.will.steal and not you.will.deceive and not you.will.deal.falsely anyone with his.fellow citizen

*JPS 1917:* Ye shall not steal; neither shall ye deal falsely, nor lie one to another.

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[Leviticus 18:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.18.20/)

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וְאֶל־אֵ֙שֶׁת֙ עֲמִֽיתְךָ֔ לֹא־תִתֵּ֥ן שְׁכָבְתְּךָ֖ לְזָ֑רַע לְטָמְאָה־בָֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* and to the.wife your.fellow.citizen your not you.will.give copulation your for seed to be.unclean by her

*JPS 1917:* And thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour's wife, to defile thyself with her.

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