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title: אָנוּשׁ — man · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אָנוּשׁ (lemma:אָנוּשׁ), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 8 times: man. BDB 1906: vb. be weak, sick. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אָנוּשׁ

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«אָנוּשׁ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **man** — 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:** 8 times · **Key:** lemma:אָנוּשׁ · **BDB:** אָנַשׁ

### Glosses

\[is\].incurable (4); incurable (4)

### Meaning (OSHB)

man [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b8_5e0_5d5_5bc_5e9_5c1/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. be weak, sick [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b8_5e0_5d5_5bc_5e9_5c1/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. be weak, sick (Assyrian anâšu ZimBP 56, 70; Wetzst in DePsalmen, ed. 4, 882 der. from II. אנשׁ per antiphrasin; DlPr 160 identified with III. אנשׁ; v. also DePsalmen, ed. 4, 904; so LagBN 60, who comp. سَيْف أَنِيث, weichliches d.h. stumpfes Schwert. It seems safer at present to keep the three distinct). Pt. pass. אָנוּשׁ Jb 34:6 +; אֲנוּשָׁה Je 15:18; Mi 1:9 \& so read ψ 69:21 (Bi Che) etc.; as adj. incurable, of wound, but metaph. (מַכָּה) Mi 1:9; Je 15:18; cf. Jb 34:6 (חֵץ), Je 30:12 (שֵׁבֶר; ‖ נַחְלָה מַכָּה); so כְּאֵב אָנוּשׁ Is 17:11; cf. Je 30:15 (מַכְאֹב); cf. יוֹם אָנוּשׁ 17:16; also in phr. עָקֹב הַלֵּב מִכֹּל וְאָנֻשׁ הוּא Je 17:9. Impf. וַיֵּאָנַ֑֯שׁ 2 S 12:15 be sick, of child.

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Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech differs, 8 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (5 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אָנוּשׁ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b8_5e0_5d5_5bc_5e9_5c1/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 34:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.34.6/)

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עַל־מִשְׁפָּטִ֥י אֲכַזֵּ֑ב אָנ֖וּשׁ חִצִּ֣י בְלִי־פָֽשַׁע׃

*Word for word:* on right my will.I.lie? \[is\].incurable arrow my not transgression

*JPS 1917:* Notwithstanding my right I am accounted a liar; my wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.'

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[Jeremiah 17:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.17.9/)

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עָקֹ֥ב הַלֵּ֛ב מִכֹּ֖ל וְאָנֻ֣שׁ ה֑וּא מִ֖י יֵדָעֶֽנּוּ׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].deceitful the heart more than.everything and.\[is\] incurable it who? will he.know.it

*JPS 1917:* The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceeding weak — who can know it?

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