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# מַאֲוַיִּים

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3970

**blemish** — 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

blemish [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/3970/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַאֲוַי: desire [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/3970/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] desire pl. cstr. מַאֲוַיֵּי רָשָׁע ψ 140:9.

Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[the\] desires (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 140:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.140.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.140.9/#tree)

אַל־תִּתֵּ֣ן יְ֭הוָה מַאֲוַיֵּ֣י רָשָׁ֑ע זְמָמ֥וֹ אַל־תָּ֝פֵ֗ק יָר֥וּמוּ סֶֽלָה׃

*Word for word:* do.not grant O.Yahweh \[the\].desires of.\[the\].wicked plan his do.not cause.to.accomplish they.will.arise Selah

*JPS 1917:* Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked; further not his evil device, so that they exalt themselves.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3970.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/3970/): 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).