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title: עָרוּץ — dreadful · The Tanakh dictionary
description: עָרוּץ (6178), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: dreadful. BDB 1906: adj. dreadful. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# עָרוּץ

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«עָרוּץ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **dreadful** — 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:** 6178 · **BDB:** עָרוּץ

### Glosses

slope (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

dreadful [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6178/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj. dreadful [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6178/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj. dreadful (proposes Pt. pass.) cstr. בַּעֲרוּץ נְחָלִים Jb 30:6 in the (most) dreadful of ravines.

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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 (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «עָרוּץ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6178/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 30:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.30.6/)

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בַּעֲר֣וּץ נְחָלִ֣ים לִשְׁכֹּ֑ן חֹרֵ֖י עָפָ֣ר וְכֵפִֽים׃

*Word for word:* on.\[the\] slope of.wadis to dwell holes of.\[the\].ground and rocks

*JPS 1917:* In the clefts of the valleys must they dwell, in holes of the earth and of the rocks.

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