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נְקֵבָה

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

Used: 22 times · Key: 5347 · BDB: נְקֵבָה

Glosses

female (13); a.female (8); [is].female (1)

Meaning (OSHB)

female tree →

Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. female tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.f. female (perforata (BaNB 166); so Thes and most; > another view in Schwally ZAW xi (1891), 181 f.; Idiot. 57; NH = BH; Aramaic נוּקְבָּא, נוּקְבְּתָא, ܢܶܩܒܳܐ, ܢܶܩܒܬܳܐ );—always abs. נ׳ Je 31:22 + 21 times (all Pent., and all P except Dt 4:16): woman (or female child) Je 31:22 (opp. גֶּבֶר), Gn 1:27; 5:2; Lv 12:5, 7; 15:33; 27:4, 5, 6, 7; Nu 5:3 (all opp. זָכָר), Nu 31:15. female animal Gn 6:19; 7:3, 9, 16; Lv 3:1, 6 (all opp. זָכָר), 4:28, 32; 5:6.—Dt 4:16 (opp. זָכָר) may include both women and animals.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 22 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

Trees and pragmatics

Every English meaning of «נְקֵבָה» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

In the verses

Numbers 31:15

וַיֹּ֥אמֶר אֲלֵיהֶ֖ם מֹשֶׁ֑ה הַֽחִיִּיתֶ֖ם כָּל־נְקֵבָֽה׃

Word for word: and he.said to them Moses have you.let.live? every female

JPS 1917: And Moses said unto them: 'Have ye saved all the women alive?

Leviticus 27:4

וְאִם־נְקֵבָ֖ה הִ֑וא וְהָיָ֥ה עֶרְכְּךָ֖ שְׁלֹשִׁ֥ים שָֽׁקֶל׃

Word for word: and if [is].female she and it.will.be valuation your thirty shekel[s]

JPS 1917: And if it be a female, then thy valuation shall be thirty shekels.

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