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title: עֶצֶב — vessel · The Tanakh dictionary
description: עֶצֶב (6089), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: vessel. BDB 1906: n.m. vessel. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# עֶצֶב

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«עֶצֶב» in the Tanakh dictionary: **vessel** — 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:** 6089 · **BDB:** עֶ֫צֶב²

### Glosses

pot? (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

vessel [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6089/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. vessel [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6089/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. vessel (as fashioned);—ע׳ נִבְזֶה וגו׳ Je 22:28 a vessel despised, etc. (fig. of Coniah = Jehoiachin).

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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 (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (8 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «עֶצֶב» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6089/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Jeremiah 22:28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.22.28/)

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הַעֶ֨צֶב נִבְזֶ֜ה נָפ֗וּץ הָאִ֤ישׁ הַזֶּה֙ כָּנְיָ֔הוּ אִ֨ם־כְּלִ֔י אֵ֥ין חֵ֖פֶץ בּ֑וֹ מַדּ֤וּעַ הֽוּטֲלוּ֙ ה֣וּא וְזַרְע֔וֹ וְהֻ֨שְׁלְכ֔וּ עַל־הָאָ֖רֶץ אֲשֶׁ֥ר לֹא־יָדָֽעוּ׃

*Word for word:* a pot? despised smashed \[is\].the man (the) this Coniah or? a.vessel \[which\].there.\[is\].not pleasure in it why? have.they.been.hurled.down he and offspring his and have.they.been.thrown? to the land which not they.knew

*JPS 1917:* Is this man Coniah a despised, broken image? Is he a vessel wherein is no pleasure? Wherefore are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into the land which they know not?

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