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title: עֵקֶר — offshoot · The Tanakh dictionary
description: עֵקֶר (6133), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: offshoot. BDB 1906: n.m. offshoot, member. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# עֵקֶר

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«עֵקֶר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **offshoot** — 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:** 6133 · **BDB:** עֵ֫קֶר

### Glosses

a.member (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

offshoot [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6133/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. offshoot, member [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6133/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. offshoot, member (? from root);—cstr. ע׳ מִשְׁפַּחַת גֵּר Lv 25:47 a member of a sojourner’s family.

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «עֵקֶר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6133/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Leviticus 25:47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.25.47/)

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וְכִ֣י תַשִּׂ֗יג יַ֣ד גֵּ֤ר וְתוֹשָׁב֙ עִמָּ֔ךְ וּמָ֥ךְ אָחִ֖יךָ עִמּ֑וֹ וְנִמְכַּ֗ר לְגֵ֤ר תּוֹשָׁב֙ עִמָּ֔ךְ א֥וֹ לְעֵ֖קֶר מִשְׁפַּ֥חַת גֵּֽר׃

*Word for word:* and (dm) it.will.reach \[the\].hand of.a.sojourner and a.resident.alien with you and he.will.become.impoverished brother your with him and he.will.sell.himself to a.sojourner a.resident.alien with you or to a.member of.\[the\].clan of.a.sojourner

*JPS 1917:* And if a stranger who is a settler with thee be waxen rich, and thy brother be waxen poor beside him, and sell himself unto the stranger who is a settler with thee, or to the offshoot of a stranger's family,

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