אֶתְנָה
ʼethnâh · H866 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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hire, fee
Objects given to other people in exchange for services
ExamplesHosea 2:12 “And I will destroy her vines and fig trees, Of which she said, ‘They are my wages for prostitution Which my lovers have given me.’ And I will turn them into a forest, And the animals of the field will devour them.
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
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- נָתַןto give, to put, to set 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הֵםthey, them 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 1 word
- שָׂכָר sâkâr · H7939 · hire, wages, fare
- General term for wages or reward for services rendered; semantically overlaps with אֶתְנָה as payment/compensation, though שָׂכָר is far more common and typically refers to legitimate wages.
In the other Testament 1 word
- μισθός misthós · G3408 · pay, wages, reward
- Standard Greek equivalent for reward/wages, used broadly for payment or recompense in both positive and negative senses, matching the semantic range of אֶתְנָה as a term for payment/reward.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Objects001
- אֶתְנָה names a reward or wage, a general object given in payment, as in Hosea's image of Israel's wages for unfaithfulness.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H866. ethnah אֶתְנָה noun feminine hire of a harlot; — אֿ absolute, Hos 2:14 (in…
אֶתְנָה noun feminine hire of a harlot; — אֿ absolute, Hos 2:14 (in figurative of Israel as adulteress); — on אֶתְנַן (which We Now Marti read here also) see II. תנן.
אֶתְנַן noun masculineEze 16:34 hire of harlot ( = אֶתְנָה); — absolute ׳א Eze 16:34, Eze 16:41, אֶתְנָ֑ן Hos 9:1 +; construct אֶתְנַן Deu 23:19 +; suffix אֶתְנַנָּהּ Isa 23:18, נַָּ֯הֿ Isa 23:17; plural suffix אֶתְנַנֶּיהָ Mic 1:7a (We proposes אֲשֵׁרֶיהָ, compare Now Marti); — harlot's hire, Deu 23:19 (׳א זוֺנָה); elsewhere in figure: of idolatrous Israel Hos 9:1, Jerusalem Eze 16:31, Eze 16:34 (twice in verse); Eze 16:41, Tyre Isa 23:17-18, of costly idols of Samaria Mic 1:7 b. 7 c, compare Mic 1:7 a (see above).
תִּנְשֶׁ֫מֶת see [נשׁם].
תעב (√of following; תאב (see [ תָּעַב] Amo 6:8) is erroneous; compare Late Hebrew תעב תּוֺעֵבָה, Pi; Phoenician תעבת, Aramaic תּוֺעֵבָא).
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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