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title: תֶּמֶס — melting · The Tanakh dictionary
description: תֶּמֶס (8557), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: melting. BDB 1906: n.m. melting. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# תֶּמֶס

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«תֶּמֶס» in the Tanakh dictionary: **melting** — 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:** 8557 · **BDB:** תֶּ֫מֶס

### Glosses

\[which\].melting.away (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

melting [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8557/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. melting [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8557/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. melting (away);—כְּמוֹ שַׁבְּלוּל ת׳ יַהֲלֹךְ ψ 58:9 like a snail that goeth into melting (leaving slimy track).

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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 «תֶּמֶס» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8557/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 58:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.58.9/)

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כְּמ֣וֹ שַׁ֭בְּלוּל תֶּ֣מֶס יַהֲלֹ֑ךְ נֵ֥פֶל אֵ֝֗שֶׁת בַּל־חָ֥זוּ שָֽׁמֶשׁ׃

*Word for word:* like a.snail \[which\].melting.away it.goes a.miscarriage of.a.woman (of).\[which\].not they.have.seen \[the\].sun

*JPS 1917:* Let them be as a snail which melteth and passeth away; like the untimely births of a woman, that have not seen the sun.

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