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title: תָּוָה — pain · The Tanakh dictionary
description: תָּוָה (8428), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: pain. BDB 1906: vb. pain, wound. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# תָּוָה

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«תָּוָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **pain** — 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:** 8428 · **BDB:** תָּוָה²

### Glosses

they.pained (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

pain [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8428/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. pain, wound [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8428/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. prob. pain, wound (fig.) (Aramaic ܬܘܳܐ (often), תְּוָא (rare) תְּהָא 𝔗J, all repent);—Pf. 3 pl. וּקְדוֹשׁ יִשׂ׳ הִתְווּ ψ 78:41 (‖ וַיְנַסּוּ) the Holy One of Isr. they pained (𝔊 παρώξυναν).

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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 «תָּוָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8428/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 78:41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.78.41/)

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וַיָּשׁ֣וּבוּ וַיְנַסּ֣וּ אֵ֑ל וּקְד֖וֹשׁ יִשְׂרָאֵ֣ל הִתְווּ׃

*Word for word:* and they.returned and they.put.to.the.test God and the.holy.\[one\] of.Israel they.pained

*JPS 1917:* And still again they tried God, and set bounds to the Holy One of Israel.

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