Word

יָוֵן

yâvên · H3121 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. mud

    Wet soil; moistened because of its proximity to water; regarded as an obstacle for movement

    Examples

    Psalm 40:2 He brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of the mud; And He set my feet on a rock, making my footsteps firm.

    Psalm 69:2 I have sunk in deep mud, and there is no foothold; I have come into deep waters, and a flood overflows me.

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Near synonyms 1 word
רֶפֶשׁ rephesh · H7516 · mud, dirt
Both lexemes genuinely denote the same substance (mire/mud).
Semantic domains 1 entry
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יָוֵן denotes miry mud or slimy sediment, as in the psalmist's cry to be lifted out of the 'miry bog' (Psalm 40:2) and the 'deep mire' in which he is sinking (Psalm 69:2).
Word family 3 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3121. yaven יָוֵן noun [masculine] mire; — absolute הַיָּוֵן מִטִּיט Psa 40:3; construct…
H3121. yaven
יָוֵן noun [masculine] mire; — absolute הַיָּוֵן מִטִּיט Psa 40:3; construct מְצוּלָה בִיוֵן טָבַעְתִּי Psa 69:3.
II. יון (√ of following, meaning unknown; יוֺנָה according to LagArmen. Stud. 7. 53; M. i. 228 = Persian wanâ but improbably; Sta§ 259 a conjectures יוֺנָה to be from אָנָה mourn, so DlPa 157).

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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