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# מאוּם

Biblical Hebrew

**blemish** — used 20 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

blemish [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5d0_5d5_5bc_5dd/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מאוּם: n.m. blemish, defect [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5d0_5d5_5bc_5dd/#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, 2 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: a blemish (13); blemish (6); defect (1).

## In the verses

[Song of Songs 4:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.4.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.4.7/#tree)

כֻּלָּ֤ךְ יָפָה֙ רַעְיָתִ֔י וּמ֖וּם אֵ֥ין בָּֽךְ׃ס

*Word for word:* of.you all \[is\].beautiful my.friend my and blemish there.\[is\].not in you

*JPS 1917:* Thou art all fair, my love; and there is no spot in thee.

[Deuteronomy 32:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.32.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.32.5/#tree)

שִׁחֵ֥ת ל֛וֹ לֹ֖א בָּנָ֣יו מוּמָ֑ם דּ֥וֹר עִקֵּ֖שׁ וּפְתַלְתֹּֽל׃

*Word for word:* it.has.acted.corruptly to him not children his blemish their a.generation perverse and crooked

*JPS 1917:* Is corruption His? No; His children's is the blemish; a generation crooked and perverse.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5de_5d0_5d5_5bc_5dd.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5d0_5d5_5bc_5dd/): 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).