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

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«נָפָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **sieve** — 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:נָפָה · **BDB:** נָפָה

### Glosses

a.sieve (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

sieve [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b8_5e4_5b8_5d4/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. sieve [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b8_5e4_5b8_5d4/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. sieve or ther winnowing implement, Di Du Schwinge, CheHpt. fan (as swung);—only cstr. לַהֲנָפָה גוֹיִם בְּנָ֫פַת שָׁוְא Is 30:28 to swing nations in a sieve of worthlessness.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «נָפָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b8_5e4_5b8_5d4/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 30:28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.30.28/)

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וְרוּח֞וֹ כְּנַ֤חַל שׁוֹטֵף֙ עַד־צַוָּ֣אר יֶֽחֱצֶ֔ה לַהֲנָפָ֥ה גוֹיִ֖ם בְּנָ֣פַת שָׁ֑וְא וְרֶ֣סֶן מַתְעֶ֔ה עַ֖ל לְחָיֵ֥י עַמִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* and breath his \[is\].like a.torrent overflowing to \[the\].neck it.reaches for shaking nations in a.sieve of.worthlessness and a.halter \[which\].misleads on \[the\].jaws of.peoples

*JPS 1917:* And His breath is as an overflowing stream, that divideth even unto the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction; and a bridle that causeth to err shall be in the jaws of the peoples.

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