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title: תַּמְרוּרִים — sign-posts · The Tanakh dictionary
description: תַּמְרוּרִים (8564), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: sign-posts. BDB 1906: n.m. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# תַּמְרוּרִים

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«תַּמְרוּרִים» in the Tanakh dictionary: **sign-posts** — 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:** 8564 · **BDB:** תַּמְרוּר²

### Glosses

guideposts (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

sign-posts [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8564/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8564/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. pl. תַּמְרוּרִים Je 31:21, doubtful word; sense, and ‖ צִיֻּנִים, require meaning sign-posts (= תאמ׳, cf. Arabic تُؤْمُورٌ sign-posts, √ امر. v. امَارٌ sign, أَمَرَةٌ stones (heaped up) as waymark; Ethiopic አመረ: I ii shew, point out, give sign or signal);—Gie rejects strange form, reading תִּמֹרִים palm-trees, as posts.—i. ת׳ v. מרר.

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Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «תַּמְרוּרִים» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8564/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Jeremiah 31:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.31.21/)

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הַצִּ֧יבִי לָ֣ךְ צִיֻּנִ֗ים שִׂ֤מִי לָךְ֙ תַּמְרוּרִ֔ים שִׁ֣תִי לִבֵּ֔ךְ לַֽמְסִלָּ֖ה דֶּ֣רֶךְ הָלָ֑כְתְּ שׁ֚וּבִי בְּתוּלַ֣ת יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל שֻׁ֖בִי אֶל־עָרַ֥יִךְ אֵֽלֶּה׃

*Word for word:* set.up for yourself road.markers place for yourself guideposts set heart your to the highway \[the\].way \[which\].you.went return O.virgin of.Israel return to cities your these

*JPS 1917:* Set thee up waymarks, make thee guide-posts; set thy heart toward the high-way, even the way by which thou wentest; Return, O virgin of Israel, return to these thy cities.

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