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# מאוּם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3971

**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/1502/3971/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מאוּם: n.m. blemish, defect [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/3971/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Jb 31:7 blemish, defect (for מְאוּם, which, although found only late, is (si vera l.) appar.original form, Köii. 146);—מ׳ abs.: of physical defect Dn 1:4. fig. בְּכַפַּי דָּבַק מ׳ Jb 31:7 of moral stain; usually

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

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Job 31:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.31.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.31.7/#tree)

אִ֥ם תִּטֶּ֣ה אַשֻּׁרִי֮ מִנִּ֪י הַ֫דָּ֥רֶךְ וְאַחַ֣ר עֵ֭ינַי הָלַ֣ךְ לִבִּ֑י וּ֝בְכַפַּ֗י דָּ֣בַק מֻאֽוּם׃

*Word for word:* if it.turned.aside step my from the way and after eyes my it.has.gone heart my and to palms my it.has.stuck a.blemish

*JPS 1917:* If my step hath turned out of the way, and my heart walked after mine eyes, and if any spot hath cleaved to my hands;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3971.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/3971/): 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).