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title: עֶשְׁתֹּנֶת — thinking · The Tanakh dictionary
description: עֶשְׁתֹּנֶת (6250), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: thinking. BDB 1906: n.f. id. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# עֶשְׁתֹּנֶת

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«עֶשְׁתֹּנֶת» in the Tanakh dictionary: **thinking** — 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:** 6250 · **BDB:** עֶשְׁתּוֹן

### Glosses

plans (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

thinking [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6250/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. id. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6250/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. id. (Aramaic: 𝔗 עֶשְׁתּוֹנִין; cstr. עשׁתוני Ecclus 3:24);—pl. sf. אָֽבְדוּ עֶשְׁתֹּנֹתָיו ψ 146:4.

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «עֶשְׁתֹּנֶת» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6250/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 146:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.146.4/)

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תֵּצֵ֣א ר֭וּחוֹ יָשֻׁ֣ב לְאַדְמָת֑וֹ בַּיּ֥וֹם הַ֝ה֗וּא אָבְד֥וּ עֶשְׁתֹּנֹתָֽיו׃

*Word for word:* it.will.go.out breath his he.will.return to earth his on the day (the) that they.have.perished plans his

*JPS 1917:* His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his dust; in that very day his thoughts perish.

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