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title: אַשְׁמַנִּים — among the stout · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אַשְׁמַנִּים (820), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: among the stout. BDB 1906: pl. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אַשְׁמַנִּים

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«אַשְׁמַנִּים» in the Tanakh dictionary: **among the stout** — 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:** 820 · **BDB:** אַשְׁמַנִּים²

### Glosses

people (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

among the stout [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/820/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

pl. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/820/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** (elative, Ges§ § 85b, 133a; on נּ v. Id. §§ 20a, 93ee) appar. n.\[m.\]pl. בָּא׳ כַּמֵּתִים Is 59:10 perhaps: (we are) among the stout (RV lusty) like dead men, cf. Di-Kit; or abstr. in (actual) vigour (Buhl) \> AV (after Jos Ki from אָשַׁם Ho 14:1 ‘be desolate’) in desolate places (other conj. v. CheHpt Marti).

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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 (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אַשְׁמַנִּים» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/820/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 59:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.59.10/)

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נְגַֽשְׁשָׁ֤ה כַֽעִוְרִים֙ קִ֔יר וּכְאֵ֥ין עֵינַ֖יִם נְגַשֵּׁ֑שָׁה כָּשַׁ֤לְנוּ בַֽצָּהֳרַ֙יִם֙ כַּנֶּ֔שֶׁף בָּאַשְׁמַנִּ֖ים כַּמֵּתִֽים׃

*Word for word:* we.grope.for like.(the) blind \[people\] a.wall and like there.\[are\].not eyes we.grope we.have.stumbled at (the) noon(s) like the twilight among the.fat people like \[those who.have\].died

*JPS 1917:* We grope for the wall like the blind, yea, as they that have no eyes do we grope; we stumble at noonday as in the twilight; we are in dark places like the dead.

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