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# לְמוֹ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3926

**to** — used 4 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

to [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3926/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

**The whole BDB entry:** poet. for לְ (v. מוֹ) Jb 27:14; 29:21; 38:40; 40:4.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: for (3); to (1).

## In the verses

[Job 29:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.29.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.29.21/#tree)

לִֽי־שָׁמְע֥וּ וְיִחֵ֑לּוּ וְ֝יִדְּמ֗וּ לְמ֣וֹ עֲצָתִֽי׃

*Word for word:* to me people.listened and they.waited and they.were.silent for counsel my

*JPS 1917:* Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence for my counsel.

[Job 38:40](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.38.40/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.38.40/#tree)

כִּי־יָשֹׁ֥חוּ בַמְּעוֹנ֑וֹת יֵשְׁב֖וּ בַסֻּכָּ֣ה לְמוֹ־אָֽרֶב׃

*Word for word:* (dm) they.will.crouch in (the) dens they.will.remain in (the) thicket for lying-in-wait

*JPS 1917:* When they couch in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in wait?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3926.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3926/): 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).