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title: אֶשְׁתָּאֹל — Eshtaol · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אֶשְׁתָּאֹל (847), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 7 times: Eshtaol. BDB 1906: n.pr.loc. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אֶשְׁתָּאֹל

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«אֶשְׁתָּאֹל» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Eshtaol** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 7 times · **Key:** 847 · **BDB:** אֶשְׁתָּאוֹל

### Glosses

Eshtaol (7)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Eshtaol [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/847/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/847/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** Jos 15:33 + 2 times, אֶשְׁתָּאֹל Ju 13:25 + 3 times n.pr.loc. (in form like the inf. of the Arabic viii. conj. from שָׁאַל: so אֶשְׁתְּמֹעַ from שָׁמַע. Perhaps Arabic-speaking tribes may have settled in parts of S. of Judah) city of Danites in the שְׁפֵלָה of Judah, named with צָרְעָה Jos 15:33; 19:41 Ju 13:25; 16:31; 18:2, 8, 11; perhaps mod. ’Eshûʿa Surveyiii. 25 GuerinPal. ii. 13 f. 382.

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Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אֶשְׁתָּאֹל» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/847/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Joshua 15:33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.33/)

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בַּשְּׁפֵלָ֑ה אֶשְׁתָּא֥וֹל וְצָרְעָ֖ה וְאַשְׁנָֽה׃

*Word for word:* in the Shephelah Eshtaol and Zorah and Ashnah

*JPS 1917:* In the Lowland: Eshtaol, and Zorah, and Ashnah;

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[Joshua 19:41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.19.41/)

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וַיְהִ֖י גְּב֣וּל נַחֲלָתָ֑ם צָרְעָ֥ה וְאֶשְׁתָּא֖וֹל וְעִ֥יר שָֽׁמֶשׁ׃

*Word for word:* and it.was the.territory their.inheritance their Zorah and Eshtaol and.\[the\] city of.\[the\].sun

*JPS 1917:* And the border of their inheritance was Zorah, and Eshtaol, and Ir-shemesh;

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