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title: תּוֹתָח — club · The Tanakh dictionary
description: תּוֹתָח (8455), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: club. BDB 1906: n.m. club, mace. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# תּוֹתָח

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«תּוֹתָח» in the Tanakh dictionary: **club** — 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:** 8455 · **BDB:** תּוֹתָ֑ח

### Glosses

a.club (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

club [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8455/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. club, mace [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8455/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. name of a weapon, perhaps club, mace (or dart, javelin; ‖ כִּידוֹן);—Jb 41:21.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «תּוֹתָח» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8455/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 41:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.41.21/)

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כְּ֭קַשׁ נֶחְשְׁב֣וּ תוֹתָ֑ח וְ֝יִשְׂחַ֗ק לְרַ֣עַשׁ כִּידֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* like chaff they.are.regarded a.club and it.laughs to.\[the\] shaking of.a.javelin

*JPS 1917:* Clubs are accounted as stubble; he laugheth at the rattling of the javelin.

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