יָוֵן
yaven · mire, mud
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H3121 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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yaven (יָוֵן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “mire, mud”.
The thick mud at the bottom of a pit.
How to say it
ya·ven
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- Thick, deep mud at the bottom of a pit or a lake, where one sinks.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Where it appears
- Psalms 40:2
And he brought me up from the pit of tumult, from the mud of the mire, and set my feet upon a crag; he made firm my steps.
- Psalms 69:2
I have sunk in the mire of the depths, and there is no foothold; I have come into deep waters, and the current sweeps me away.