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title: תָּמַח — Tamah · The Tanakh dictionary
description: תָּמַח (8547), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: Tamah. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# תָּמַח

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«תָּמַח» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Tamah** — 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:** 2 times · **Key:** 8547 · **BDB:** תָּ֑מַח

### Glosses

of.Temah (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Tamah [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8547/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.m. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8547/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. head of a Jewish family, Ezr 2:53=Ne 7:55; 𝔊 Θεμα (Ne Ημαθ), 𝔊L Θεμαα.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «תָּמַח» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8547/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Ezra 2:53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.53/)

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בְּנֵי־בַרְק֥וֹס בְּֽנֵי־סִֽיסְרָ֖א בְּנֵי־תָֽמַח׃

*Word for word:* the.descendants of.Barkos the.descendants of.Sisera the.descendants of.Temah

*JPS 1917:* the children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Temah;

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[Nehemiah 7:55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.7.55/)

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בְּנֵי־בַרְק֥וֹס בְּֽנֵי־סִֽיסְרָ֖א בְּנֵי־תָֽמַח׃

*Word for word:* the.descendants of.Barkos the.descendants of.Sisera the.descendants of.Temah

*JPS 1917:* the children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Temah;

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