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

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«אשׁשׁ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **be a man** — 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:אשׁשׁ · **BDB:** אשׁשׁ

### Glosses

pluck.up.courage (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

be a man [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5e9_5c1_5e9_5c1/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

Hithpo. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5e9_5c1_5e9_5c1/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** (cf. أَسَّسَ found, establish) Hithpo. וְהִתְאשָׁ֑שׁוּ Is 46:8 (der. from above by 𝔗 Jer Hi Kn De MV, shew yourselves firm, but) read perhaps הִתְבּשָׁ֑שׁוּ Lag Che, from בּוֹשׁ (Thes expl. as denom. from אִישׁ; on other views cf. Di).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אשׁשׁ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5e9_5c1_5e9_5c1/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 46:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.46.8/)

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זִכְרוּ־זֹ֖את וְהִתְאֹשָׁ֑שׁוּ הָשִׁ֥יבוּ פוֹשְׁעִ֖ים עַל־לֵֽב׃

*Word for word:* remember this and pluck.up.courage bring.\[it\].back O.rebels on heart

*JPS 1917:* Remember this, and stand fast; bring it to mind, O ye transgressors.

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