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title: אֱשׁוּן — pupil · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אֱשׁוּן (lemma:אֱשׁוּן), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: pupil. BDB 1906: pupil. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אֱשׁוּן

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«אֱשׁוּן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **pupil** — 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:** lemma:אֱשׁוּן · **BDB:** אִישׁוֹן

### Glosses

a.time (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

pupil [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b1_5e9_5c1_5d5_5bc_5df/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

pupil [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b1_5e9_5c1_5d5_5bc_5df/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] pupil of eye (cf. DlHA 9 PrätLOPh, Feb. 1884, but also Ar. إِنْسَانٌ العَيْنِ, \& NöZMG 1886, 739)—א׳ all cstr.—א׳ עַיִן Dt 32:10 Pr 7:2; א׳ בַּת־עַיִן ψ 17:8 (in all, sim. of preciousness); = middle, midst of night בְּא׳ לַיְלָה וַאֲפֵלָה Pr 7:9; בְּא׳ חֹשֶׁךְ 20:20 Kt i.e. in deep darkness (Qr בֶּאֱשׁוּן v. Now).

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Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (3 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אֱשׁוּן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b1_5e9_5c1_5d5_5bc_5df/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Proverbs 20:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.20.20/)

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מְ֭קַלֵּל אָבִ֣יו וְאִמּ֑וֹ יִֽדְעַ֥ךְ נֵ֝ר֗וֹ בֶּאֱשׁ֥וּן חֹֽשֶׁךְ׃

*Word for word:* \[one.who\].curses father his and mother his it.will.be.extinguished lamp his in a.time of.darkness

*JPS 1917:* Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in the blackest darkness.

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