STRONGS NUMBER H3121


Word Summary
yaven: mire
Original Word: יָוֵן
Transliteration: yaven
Phonetic Spelling: (yaw-ven')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: mire
Meaning: dregs, mud
Strong's Concordance
mire, miry

From the same as yayin; properly, dregs (as effervescing); hence, mud -- mire, miry.

see HEBREW yayin

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H3121. yaven

יָוֵןnoun [masculine] mire; — absolute הַיָּוֵן מִטִּיטPsalm 40:3; construct מְצוּלָה בִיוֵן טָבַעְתִּי69:3.

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 אָנָהmourn, so DlPa 157).