עִיט
ʻîyṭ · H5860 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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to rush upon
Action by which human move quickly to a location, in order to take possession of things that are considered valuable
Examples1 Samuel 14:32 So the people loudly rushed upon the spoils, and took sheep, oxen, and calves, and slaughtered them on the ground; and the people ate them with the blood.
1 Samuel 15:19 “Why then did you not obey the voice of the LORD? Instead, you loudly rushed upon the spoils and did what was evil in the sight of the LORD!”
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to insult, to rail, to rage
Exact meaning unsure; possibly: action by which humans speak to other humans in an insulting manner, possibly loudly and with anger
Examples1 Samuel 25:14 Now one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, saying, “Behold, David sent messengers from the wilderness to greet our master, and he spoke to them in anger.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- עַםpeople 1
- Not stated: you (one person) 1
- Not stated: he, she or it 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- אֵלto, toward+ שָׁלָלspoil, plunder, booty 2
- בin/on/with+ הֶםthem 1
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 2 words
- בּוּז bûwz · H936 · to despise, to scorn
- The target lexeme (‘fly, rail’ — ‘rail’ meaning to revile or mock) and בּוּז (‘contemn, despise’) both denote expressions of scorn or contempt, and are plausible near-synonyms in the sense of verbal disdain.
- קָלַס qâlaç · H7046 · to scorn, to disdain, to jeer
- עִיט (ʻîyṭ, H5860) (“rail,” i.e., revile or mock) and קָלַס (“mock, scoff, scorn”) both denote verbal derision or mockery and could substitute in contexts of verbal contempt.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Move002002001012
- עִיט describes a swift, aggressive rushing movement, as in 1 Samuel 14:32's people who "loudly rushed upon the spoils" and 1 Samuel 15:19's "you loudly rushed upon the spoils."
- Revile002004001009012
- The word also carries a "rail" or verbally attack sense, connecting the aggressive rushing action to loud, hostile speech.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5860. iyt [עִיט] verb scream, shriek (Arabic , II. scream, scold, screaming, scolding,…
[עִיט] verb scream, shriek (Arabic , II. scream, scold, screaming, scolding, Frey Dozyii. 195; Syriac anger, reviling); — only
Qal Imperfect3masculine singular בָּהֶם וַיָּ֫עַט 1Sa 25:14 and he screamed at them (of Nabal).
[עִיט] verb denominative dart greedily (like a bird of prey); —
Qal Imperfect3masculine singular וַיַּ֫עַט Qr (Kt:erroneous ויעשׂ) 1Sa 14:32 and the people darted greedily upon the spoil (אֶלהַֿשָּׁלָל, so 2 masculine singular וַתַּ֫עַט 1Sa 15:19 (on forms see Ges§ 72 f f.).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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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