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title: עָשַׁת — think · The Tanakh dictionary
description: עָשַׁת (6245), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: think. BDB 1906: vb. Hithp. think. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# עָשַׁת

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«עָשַׁת» in the Tanakh dictionary: **think** — 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:** 6245 · **BDB:** עָשַׁת²

### Glosses

he.will.give.thought (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

think [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6245/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. Hithp. think [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6245/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. Hithp. think (Aramaism: Biblical Aramaic Pt. עֲשִׁית, 𝔗 אִתְעַשַּׁת);— Impf. 3 ms. יִתְעַשֵּׁת א׳ לָנוּ Jon 1:6 perhaps God will give a thought to us (cf. חשׁב ψ 40:18).

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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 (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «עָשַׁת» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6245/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Jonah 1:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JON.1.6/)

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וַיִּקְרַ֤ב אֵלָיו֙ רַ֣ב הַחֹבֵ֔ל וַיֹּ֥אמֶר ל֖וֹ מַה־לְּךָ֣ נִרְדָּ֑ם ק֚וּם קְרָ֣א אֶל־אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ אוּלַ֞י יִתְעַשֵּׁ֧ת הָאֱלֹהִ֛ים לָ֖נוּ וְלֹ֥א נֹאבֵֽד׃

*Word for word:* and he.drew.near to him the.chief of the.sailor\[s\] and he.said to him what? \[is\].to you sleeping arise call to god your perhaps he.will.give.thought the god to us and not we.will.perish

*JPS 1917:* So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him: 'What meanest thou that thou sleepest? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.'

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