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title: אָתָה — come · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אָתָה (857), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 21 times: come. BDB 1906: vb. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אָתָה

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«אָתָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **come** — 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:** 21 times · **Key:** 857 · **BDB:** אָתָה

### Glosses

come (3); \[things\] (2); he.came (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

come [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/857/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/857/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. come (in Heb. only poet.) (Arabic أَتَى, Sab. אתו DHMZMG 1875, 597; 1883, 343, Aramaic אֲתָא, ܐܶܬܳܐ )— Pf. א׳ Dt 33:2; אָתָא Is 21:12 v. Ges§ 75 R. 22; 1 pl. אָתָנוּ Je 3:22; Impf. יֶאֱתֶה Jb 37:22 Pr 1:27; וַיֵּתֵא Dt 33:21 (= וַיֶּאֱתֶה cf. Di Köi. 577), וַיַּאת Is 41:25; sf. וַיֶּאֱתָיֵנִי Jb 3:25; 3 fs. תֵּאתֶה Mi 4:8; 3 mpl. יֶאֱתָ֫יוּ Jb 16:22 + 2 times; וַיֶּאֱתָיוּ֑ן Is 41:5; Imv. mpl. אֵתָ֫יוּ Is 21:12 + 2 times; Pt. fpl. אֹתִיּוֹת Is 41:23 + 2 times;—come, of men Dt 33:21 ψ 68:32 Is 41:25; 56:12 Imv. = come now, with hostile purpose Jb 30:14, of men unto י׳ Je 3:22 (sq. לְ) cf. Is 21:12; of י׳ Dt 33:2; of ends of earth, etc., personif. Is 41:5; of time, morning Is 21:12, years Jb 16:22; of weather Jb 37:22; of beasts, to devour Is 56:9 (sq. inf.), of calamity Pr 1:27 Jb 3:25 come upon, c. sf., of dominion Mi 4:8 (sq. עַד). Pt. pl. fem. as subst. things to come, future things Is 41:23; 44:7; 45:11. bring, Imv. הֵתָ֫יוּ מַיִם Is 21:14 bring water (on form, for הֶאֱתוּ cf. Di Ew§ 141 a Ges§ 68, 2 R. 1, § 76. 2 (c1)); Je 12:9 bring beasts, to devour.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 20 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אָתָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/857/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 30:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.30.14/)

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כְּפֶ֣רֶץ רָחָ֣ב יֶאֱתָ֑יוּ תַּ֥חַת שֹׁ֝אָ֗ה הִתְגַּלְגָּֽלוּ׃

*Word for word:* like a.breach wide they.come under devastation they.have.rolled.themselves

*JPS 1917:* As through a wide breach they come; in the midst of the ruin they roll themselves upon me.

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[Job 37:22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.37.22/)

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מִ֭צָּפוֹן זָהָ֣ב יֶֽאֱתֶ֑ה עַל־אֱ֝ל֗וֹהַּ נ֣וֹרָא הֽוֹד׃

*Word for word:* from.\[the\] north gold it.comes \[is\].on God awesome majesty

*JPS 1917:* Out of the north cometh golden splendour, about God is terrible majesty.

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