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# לְמוּאֵל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3927

**Lemuel** — used 2 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

Lemuel [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3927/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

לְמוּאֵל: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3927/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. king of Massa (prob., v. מַשָּׂא); לְמוּ׳ Pr 31:1, למוֹ׳ v 4.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number, only a cross-reference (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Proverbs 31:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.31.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.31.1/#tree)

דִּ֭בְרֵי לְמוּאֵ֣ל מֶ֑לֶךְ מַ֝שָּׂ֗א אֲ‍ֽשֶׁר־יִסְּרַ֥תּוּ אִמּֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* the.words of.Lemuel \[the\].king an.oracle which she instructed.him mother his

*JPS 1917:* The words of king Lemuel; the burden wherewith his mother corrected him.

[Proverbs 31:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.31.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.31.4/#tree)

אַ֤ל לַֽמְלָכִ֨ים ׀ לְֽמוֹאֵ֗ל אַ֣ל לַֽמְלָכִ֣ים שְׁתוֹ־יָ֑יִן וּ֝לְרוֹזְנִ֗ים אֵ֣י שֵׁכָֽר׃

*Word for word:* not \[is\].for (the) kings O.Lemuel not for (the) kings to.drink wine and for rulers where? strong.drink

*JPS 1917:* It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine: nor for princes to say: 'Where is strong drink?'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3927.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3927/): 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).