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title: אֹבֹת — Oboth · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אֹבֹת (88), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 4 times: Oboth. BDB 1906: n.pr.loc. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אֹבֹת

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«אֹבֹת» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Oboth** — 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:** 4 times · **Key:** 88 · **BDB:** אֹבֹת

### Glosses

Oboth (4)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Oboth [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/88/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/88/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. (water-skins) station of Isr. in wildern. Nu 21:10, 11; 33:43, 44; not yet determ., prob. on eastern skirts of Idumæa not far from Moab; according to Wetzst in De Ct 168 Wêba, وَيْبَة in the Arabah, but identif. not prob.; cf. Di on Nu 21:10.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אֹבֹת» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/88/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Numbers 21:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.21.10/)

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וַיִּסְע֖וּ בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וַֽיַּחֲנ֖וּ בְּאֹבֹֽת׃

*Word for word:* and they.set.out the.people of.Israel and they.encamped in Oboth

*JPS 1917:* And the children of Israel journeyed, and pitched in Oboth.

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[Numbers 33:43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.33.43/)

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וַיִּסְע֖וּ מִפּוּנֹ֑ן וַֽיַּחֲנ֖וּ בְּאֹבֹֽת׃

*Word for word:* and they.set.out from Punan and they.encamped at Oboth

*JPS 1917:* And they journeyed from Punon, and pitched in Oboth.

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