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# בׇּצְרָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1223

**enclosure** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

enclosure [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1223/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בָּצְרָה: n.f. enclosure (sheep-)fold [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1223/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. enclosure, i.e. (sheep-)fold, צאן ב׳ Mi 2:12.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of a sheepfold (1).

## In the verses

[Micah 2:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.2.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.2.12/#tree)

אָסֹ֨ף אֶאֱסֹ֜ף יַעֲקֹ֣ב כֻּלָּ֗ךְ קַבֵּ֤ץ אֲקַבֵּץ֙ שְׁאֵרִ֣ית יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל יַ֥חַד אֲשִׂימֶ֖נּוּ כְּצֹ֣אן בָּצְרָ֑ה כְּעֵ֙דֶר֙ בְּת֣וֹךְ הַדָּֽבְר֔וֹ תְּהִימֶ֖נָה מֵאָדָֽם׃

*Word for word:* surely.(gather) I.will.gather O.Jacob of.you all surely.(assemble) I.will.assemble the.remnant of.Israel together I will.make.it like sheep of.a.sheepfold like a.flock in the.midst of.(the) pasture its they.will.be.distraught from humankind

*JPS 1917:* I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will render them all as sheep in a fold; as a flock in the midst of their pasture; they shall make great noise by reason of the multitude of men.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1223.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1223/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).