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title: עָתַם — is burned up · The Tanakh dictionary
description: עָתַם (6272), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: is burned up. BDB 1906: vb. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# עָתַם

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«עָתַם» in the Tanakh dictionary: **is burned up** — 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:** 6272 · **BDB:** עָתַם

### Glosses

it.has.been.scorched (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

is burned up [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6272/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6272/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. dub.; Pf. 3 ms. נֶעְתַּם אָ֑רֶץ Is 9:18 (غَتَمَ is be clogged in speech, غَتْمٌ suffocating heat, مَغْتُومٌ burned by heat; hence Thes scorched, but derived sense dub.; v. RSJPhil. xiii. 61 f.);—read perhaps נִצְּתָה (√ יָצַת) is burned up, cf. RSl.c., Krochm Kit CheHpt..

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «עָתַם» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6272/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 9:18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.9.18/)

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בְּעֶבְרַ֛ת יְהוָ֥ה צְבָא֖וֹת נֶעְתַּ֣ם אָ֑רֶץ וַיְהִ֤י הָעָם֙ כְּמַאֲכֹ֣לֶת אֵ֔שׁ אִ֥ישׁ אֶל־אָחִ֖יו לֹ֥א יַחְמֹֽלוּ׃

*Word for word:* by the.wrath of.Yahweh of.hosts it.has.been.scorched \[the\].land and it.was the people like fuel of.a.fire each (to) brother his not they.spared

*JPS 1917:* Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts is the land burnt up; the people also are as the fuel of fire; no man spareth his brother.

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