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title: אֶתְנָה — hire · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אֶתְנָה (866), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: hire. BDB 1906: n.f. hire. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אֶתְנָה

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«אֶתְנָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **hire** — 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:** 866 · **BDB:** אֶתְנָה²

### Glosses

\[are\].wage\[s\] (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

hire [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/866/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. hire [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/866/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. hire of a harlot;—א׳ abs., Ho 2:14 (in fig. of Israel as adulteress);—on אֶתְנַן (which We Now Marti read here also) v. II. תנן.

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אֶתְנָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/866/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Hosea 2:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.2.14/)

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וַהֲשִׁמֹּתִ֗י גַּפְנָהּ֙ וּתְאֵ֣נָתָ֔הּ אֲשֶׁ֣ר אָמְרָ֗ה אֶתְנָ֥ה הֵ֙מָּה֙ לִ֔י אֲשֶׁ֥ר נָֽתְנוּ־לִ֖י מְאַֽהֲבָ֑י וְשַׂמְתִּ֣ים לְיַ֔עַר וַאֲכָלָ֖תַם חַיַּ֥ת הַשָּׂדֶֽה׃

*Word for word:* and I.will.devastate vine\[s\] her and her.fig tree\[s\] which she.said \[are\].wage\[s\] they for me which they.gave to me lovers my and I will.make.them into a.thicket and it will.consume.them the.animal\[s\] of the.field

*JPS 1917:* And I will lay waste her vines and her fig-trees, whereof she hath said: 'These are my hire that my lovers have given me'; and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.

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