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# מְאוּרָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3975

**light-hole** — 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

light-hole [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/3975/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מְאוּרָה: n.f. light-hole [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/3975/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. light-hole—only cstr. מְאוּרַת—= den of great viper Is 11:8, cf. מָאוֹר Mish. Ohaloth 13:1 (others eye-ball 𝔗 Ew De Di).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 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: \[the\] nest (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 11:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.11.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.11.8/#tree)

וְשִֽׁעֲשַׁ֥ע יוֹנֵ֖ק עַל־חֻ֣ר פָּ֑תֶן וְעַל֙ מְאוּרַ֣ת צִפְעוֹנִ֔י גָּמ֖וּל יָד֥וֹ הָדָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.will.play a.sucking.child over \[the\].hole of.a.cobra and over \[the\].nest of.a.viper a.weaned.\[child\] hand his he.will.put.out

*JPS 1917:* And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the basilisk's den.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3975.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/3975/): 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).