Word

בֹּהֶן

bôhen · H931 · Hebrew · 16 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. thumb, big toe

    Short, thick, inner digit of human hand or foot

    Examples

    Exodus 29:20 “And you shall slaughter the ram, and take some of its blood and put it on the lobe of Aaron’s right ear and on the lobes of his sons’ right ears, and on the thumbs of their right hands, and on the big toes of their right feet, and sprinkle the rest of the blood around on the altar.

    Leviticus 8:23 And Moses slaughtered it and took some of its blood and put it on the lobe of Aaron’s right ear, and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot.

    Leviticus 8:24 He also had Aaron’s sons come near; and Moses put some of the blood on the lobe of their right ear, and on the thumb of their right hand and on the big toe of their right foot. Moses then sprinkled the rest of the blood around on the altar.

How it’s used In 4 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

16 occurrences in 2 groups

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

14 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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In the other Testament 1 word
ἄκρον ákron · G206 · extreme boundary, final limit, end
Greek ἄκρον denotes extremity/tip in general spatial terms; Hebrew בֹּהֶן specifically anatomical extremities (thumb, great toe) as the referent body parts themselves, not merely their tips—the Greek term captures the concept through spatial position (outermost point), the Hebrew through body-part taxonomy.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H931. bohen בֹּ֫הֶן noun [feminine] (compare Sta§ 310 c) with יַד thumb, with רֶגֶל great…
H931. bohen
בֹּ֫הֶן noun [feminine] (compare Sta§ 310 c) with יַד thumb, with רֶגֶל great toe (Arabic , & (vulgar) , ) — ׳בּ only construct Exo 29:20 (twice in verse) + 12t.; plural construct בְּהֹנוֺת Jdg 1:6-7, (from singular [בְּהוֺן] as always Manuscript ⅏ for בֹּהֶן ᵑ0); — thumb (יָדָם) ׳בּ יָדוֺ, & great toe (דַגְלָם) ׳בּ רַגְלוֺ (always named together) Exo 29:20 (twice in verse); Lev 8:23 (twice in verse); Lev 8:24 (twice in verse); Lev 14:14 (twice in verse); Lev 14:17 (twice in verse); Lev 14:25 (twice in verse); Lev 14:28 (twice in verse); י ׳בְּהֹנוֺת ׳וְר Jdg 1:6-7,.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

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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