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title: בָּהִיר — bright · The Tanakh dictionary
description: בָּהִיר (925), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: bright. BDB 1906: adj. bright, brilliant. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# בָּהִיר

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«בָּהִיר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **bright** — 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:** 925 · **BDB:** בָּהִיר

### Glosses

\[is\].brilliant (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

bright [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/925/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj. bright, brilliant [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/925/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj. bright, brilliant, of light; only Jb 37:21 לֹא רָאוּ אוֹר בּ׳ הוּא בַּשְּׁחָקִים.

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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, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «בָּהִיר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/925/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 37:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.37.21/)

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וְעַתָּ֤ה ׀ לֹ֘א רָ֤אוּ א֗וֹר בָּהִ֣יר ה֭וּא בַּשְּׁחָקִ֑ים וְר֥וּחַ עָ֝בְרָ֗ה וַֽתְּטַהֲרֵֽם׃

*Word for word:* and now not people.see a.light \[is\].brilliant it in the clouds and.\[the\] wind it.has.passed.by and it has.cleansed.them

*JPS 1917:* And now men see not the light which is bright in the skies; but the wind passeth, and cleanseth them.

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