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title: עָמַר — deal tyrannically · The Tanakh dictionary
description: עָמַר (lemma:עָמַר), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: deal tyrannically. BDB 1906: vb. deal tyrannically. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# עָמַר

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«עָמַר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **deal tyrannically** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 2 times · **Key:** lemma:עָמַר · **BDB:** עָמַר

### Glosses

he.will.treat.as.a.slave (1); you.will.treat.as.a.slave (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

deal tyrannically [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b8_5de_5b7_5e8/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. deal tyrannically [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b8_5de_5b7_5e8/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. deal tyrannically with (ב) (Arabic غَمِرَ cherish enmity, rancour, malice, iii. plunge into a conflict, غِمْرٌ rancour, malice);—Pf. 3 ms. וְהִתְעַמֶּר־ consec. Dt 24:7; Impf. 2 ms. תִּתְעַמֵּר 21:14.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «עָמַר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b8_5de_5b7_5e8/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Deuteronomy 21:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.21.14/)

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וְהָיָ֞ה אִם־לֹ֧א חָפַ֣צְתָּ בָּ֗הּ וְשִׁלַּחְתָּהּ֙ לְנַפְשָׁ֔הּ וּמָכֹ֥ר לֹא־תִמְכְּרֶ֖נָּה בַּכָּ֑סֶף לֹא־תִתְעַמֵּ֣ר בָּ֔הּ תַּ֖חַת אֲשֶׁ֥ר עִנִּיתָֽהּ׃ס

*Word for word:* and it.will.be if not you.delight in her and you will.let.her.go for self her and certainly.(sell) not you will.sell.her for (the) money not you.will.treat.as.a.slave (in) her because that you have.humiliated.her

*JPS 1917:* And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt let her go whither she will; but thou shalt not sell her at all for money, thou shalt not deal with her as a slave, because thou hast humbled her.

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[Deuteronomy 24:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.24.7/)

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כִּי־יִמָּצֵ֣א אִ֗ישׁ גֹּנֵ֨ב נֶ֤פֶשׁ מֵאֶחָיו֙ מִבְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וְהִתְעַמֶּר־בּ֖וֹ וּמְכָר֑וֹ וּמֵת֙ הַגַּנָּ֣ב הַה֔וּא וּבִֽעַרְתָּ֥ הָרָ֖ע מִקִּרְבֶּֽךָ׃

*Word for word:* (dm) he.will.be.found anyone stealing a.person of countrymen his any of.the.people of.Israel and he.will.treat.as.a.slave (in) him and he will.sell.him and he.will.die the thief (the) that and you.will.remove the evil from midst your

*JPS 1917:* If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and he deal with him as a slave, and sell him; then that thief shall die; so shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee.

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