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

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«יזן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **feed** — 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:יזן · **BDB:** יזן

### Glosses

well.fed (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

feed [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/lemma_3a_5d9_5d6_5df/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/lemma_3a_5d9_5d6_5df/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. only Pt. pl. מְיֻזָּנִים Je 5:8 Qr (מוּזָנִים v. זון); meaning dub. (comp. by Schu al. with Arabic وَزَنَ weigh, whence furnished with weights, i.e. testicles, but sense remote and very uncertain).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (3 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 «יזן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/lemma_3a_5d9_5d6_5df/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Jeremiah 5:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.5.8/)

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סוּסִ֥ים מְיֻזָּנִ֖ים מַשְׁכִּ֣ים הָי֑וּ אִ֛ישׁ אֶל־אֵ֥שֶׁת רֵעֵ֖הוּ יִצְהָֽלוּ׃

*Word for word:* horses well.fed lustful they.are everyone to the.wife his.neighbor his they.neigh

*JPS 1917:* They are become as well-fed horses, lusty stallions; every one neigheth after his neighbour's wife.

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