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title: שָׂנִיא — hated · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שָׂנִיא (8146), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: hated. BDB 1906: adj. hated, held in aversion. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שָׂנִיא

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«שָׂנִיא» in the Tanakh dictionary: **hated** — 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:** 8146 · **BDB:** שָׂנִיא

### Glosses

\[wife\] (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

hated [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8146/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj. hated, held in aversion [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8146/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj. hated, held in aversion;—fs. הַשְּׂנִיאָה Dt 21:15b the hated (wife; v. √ 1 a); but read probably הַשְּׂנוּאָה (as v 15a bis, 16).

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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 (4 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 «שָׂנִיא» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8146/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Deuteronomy 21:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.21.15/)

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כִּֽי־תִהְיֶ֨יןָ לְאִ֜ישׁ שְׁתֵּ֣י נָשִׁ֗ים הָאַחַ֤ת אֲהוּבָה֙ וְהָאַחַ֣ת שְׂנוּאָ֔ה וְיָֽלְדוּ־ל֣וֹ בָנִ֔ים הָאֲהוּבָ֖ה וְהַשְּׂנוּאָ֑ה וְהָיָ֛ה הַבֵּ֥ן הַבְּכ֖וֹר לַשְּׂנִיאָֽה׃

*Word for word:* (dm) they.will.belong to a.man two wives the one \[is\].loved and the one \[is\].hated and they.will.bear to him sons the.loved \[wife\] and the.hated \[wife\] and he.will.belong the son the firstborn to the.hated \[wife\]

*JPS 1917:* If a man have two wives, the one beloved, and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the first-born son be hers that was hated;

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