זוּן
zûwn · H2109 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to be in heat
Meaning unsure; possibly: state in which animals are sexually aroused
ExamplesJeremiah 5:8 “They were well-fed lusty horses, Each one neighing at his neighbor’s wife.
How it’s used
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Semantic domains 1 entry
- Desire002004001001001
- זוּן denotes being well-fed or satisfied, as the lusty horses of Jeremiah's oracle are described as well-fed and craving.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2109. zun זוּן verb feed (Late Hebrew Biblical Aramaic id.; Syriac ; Samaritan , ); —…
זוּן verb feed (Late Hebrew Biblical Aramaic id.; Syriac ; Samaritan , ); —
Hoph`al Participle מוזנים סוּסִים Jer 5:8 (Kt; i.e. מוּזָנִים; Qr מְיֻזָּנִים from יזן q. v.) well-fed horses, figurative of adulterers; DlPr 73 f. compare Assyrian zanânu, be full (i.e. of sexual desire).
[יזן] verb only
Pu`al Participle plural מְיֻזָּנִיםJer 5:8 Qr (< Kt מוּזָנִים see זון); meaning dubious (compare by Schu and others with Arabic weigh, whence furnished with weights, i.e. testicles, but sense remote and very uncertain).
יָזִיז see below I. זוז above
יִזְלִיאָה see below זלא above
יון, √ of
Pu`al Participle plural מְיֻוָּנִים Jer 5:8 Qr, see [ווּן].
יְזַנְיָה יְזַנְיָהוּ, see below I. אזן above
יזע (√ of following; compare Arabic fluxit aqua (Frey); Late Hebrew and Aramaic in derivatives, see below)
[זוּן] verb feed (ᵑ7; Syriac ; compare Biblical Hebrew); —
Hithpe`el be fed: Imperfect יִתְּזִין (K§ 45, 1 d); so in Syriac WCG 254 NöLCB, 1896, 703) Dan 4:9, מִן of source.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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