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title: חֹסָה — Hosah · The Tanakh dictionary
description: חֹסָה (lemma:חֹסָה), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: Hosah. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. n.pr.loc. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# חֹסָה

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«חֹסָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Hosah** — 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:חֹסָה · **BDB:** חֹסָה

### Glosses

Hosah (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Hosah [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b9_5e1_5b8_5d4/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.m. n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b9_5e1_5b8_5d4/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (refuge)—name of one of the Levitical doorkeepers of the temple 1 Ch 16:38; 26:10, 11, 16. n.pr.loc. place in the tribe of Asher Jos 19:29; site unknown; 𝔊 Ιασιφ, A Σουσα, 𝔊L Ωσα.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «חֹסָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b9_5e1_5b8_5d4/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Joshua 19:29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.19.29/)

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וְשָׁ֤ב הַגְּבוּל֙ הָֽרָמָ֔ה וְעַד־עִ֖יר מִבְצַר־צֹ֑ר וְשָׁ֤ב הַגְּבוּל֙ חֹסָ֔ה וְהָי֧וּ תֹצְאֹתָ֛יו הַיָּ֖מָּה מֵחֶ֥בֶל אַכְזִֽיבָה׃

*Word for word:* and it.turns.back the border (the) Ramah and to the.city of.fortification of.Tyre and it.turns.back the border Hosah and they.are extremities its to the sea from the.region to Aczib

*JPS 1917:* And the border turned to Ramah, and to the fortified city of Tyre; and the border turned to Hosah; and the goings out thereof were at the sea from Hebel to Achzib;

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