זוּן

# Zun: A Hapax Legomenon for Feeding The Hebrew verb *zun* appears only once in the biblical text, making it what scholars call a "hapax legomenon"—a word attested in a single occurrence. Its basic meaning is "to feed," indicating the provision or consumption of nourishment. The rarity of this term in the preserved biblical corpus limits our ability to determine its full semantic range or whether it carried specialized connotations that distinguished it from other Hebrew words for feeding. Because *zun* occurs just once, we cannot map out how its meaning varied in different contexts or what nuances it might have carried compared to more common feeding terminology. A single appearance provides only a minimal foothold for understanding the word's role in Hebrew vocabulary. The significance of such rare words lies partly in what they reveal about the diversity of biblical Hebrew vocabulary—that multiple terms existed for expressing related concepts—and partly in what their scarcity tells us about limitations in the biblical textual record we possess.