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title: חַוָּה — tent-village · The Tanakh dictionary
description: חַוָּה (lemma:חַוָּה), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: tent-village. BDB 1906: n.f. tent-village. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# חַוָּה

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«חַוָּה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **tent-village** — 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:חַוָּה · **BDB:** חַוָּה²

### Glosses

a.community (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

tent-village [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b7_5d5_5b8_5bc_5d4/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. tent-village [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b7_5d5_5b8_5bc_5d4/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. tent-village—Pl. חַוֹּתֵיהֶם Nu 32:41 (JE), cf. Di. Elsewhere in cpd. appellative, almost = n.pr. חַוֹּת יָאִיר Dt 3:14 Jos 13:30 (D), Ju 10:4 1 K 4:13 1 Ch 2:23.—i. חַוָּה n.pr.f. v. supr.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (10 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (8 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «חַוָּה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b7_5d5_5b8_5bc_5d4/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[2 Samuel 23:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.23.13/)

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וַיֵּרְד֨וּ שְׁלֹשָׁ֜ה מֵהַשְּׁלֹשִׁ֣ים רֹ֗אשׁ וַיָּבֹ֤אוּ אֶל־קָצִיר֙ אֶל־דָּוִ֔ד אֶל־מְעָרַ֖ת עֲדֻלָּ֑ם וְחַיַּ֣ת פְּלִשְׁתִּ֔ים חֹנָ֖ה בְּעֵ֥מֶק רְפָאִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and they.went.down three of the thirty chief\[s\] and they.came to \[the\].harvest to David to the.cave of.Adullam and a.community of.Philistines \[was\].encamping in the.valley of.Rephaim

*JPS 1917:* And three of the thirty chief went down, and came to David in the harvest time unto the cave of Adullam; and the troop of the Philistines were encamped in the valley of Rephaim.

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