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# בׇּצְרָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1224

**Bozrah** — used 8 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Bozrah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1224/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בָּצְרָה²: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1224/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. city of Edom (fortress; (v. Palm. n.pr.loc. בצרא VogNo. 22 𝔊 βοσ(σ)ορρα; cf. βοσορ; LagOnom. Sacr. 102, 232, 2nd ed. 137, 247 = βοστρα) Gn 36:33 = 1 Ch 1:44 Is 34:6; 63:1 (in both ‖ אדום (ארץ)) Je 49:13, 22 Am 1:12. of Moab Je 48:24, prob. = ii. בֶּצֶר 1;—on Mi 2:12 cf. foregoing.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Bozrah (7); of Bozrah (1).

## In the verses

[Amos 1:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.1.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.1.12/#tree)

וְשִׁלַּ֥חְתִּי אֵ֖שׁ בְּתֵימָ֑ן וְאָכְלָ֖ה אַרְמְנ֥וֹת בָּצְרָֽה׃פ

*Word for word:* and I.will.send.forth a.fire on Teman and it.will.consume the.fortresses of.Bozrah

*JPS 1917:* So will I send a fire upon Teman, and it shall devour the palaces of Bozrah.

[Genesis 36:33](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.36.33/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.36.33/#tree)

וַיָּ֖מָת בָּ֑לַע וַיִּמְלֹ֣ךְ תַּחְתָּ֔יו יוֹבָ֥ב בֶּן־זֶ֖רַח מִבָּצְרָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.died Bela and he.reigned in place.of.him Jobab the.son of.Zerah from Bozrah

*JPS 1917:* And Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his stead.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1224/): 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).