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# מַאֲכֹלֶת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3980

**fuel** — used 2 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

fuel [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/3980/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַאֲכֹ֫לֶת: n.f. fuel [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/3980/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. fuel cstr., only מַא׳ אֵשׁ Is 9:4, 18.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 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: fuel (2).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 9:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.9.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.9.4/#tree)

כִּ֤י כָל־סְאוֹן֙ סֹאֵ֣ן בְּרַ֔עַשׁ וְשִׂמְלָ֖ה מְגוֹלָלָ֣ה בְדָמִ֑ים וְהָיְתָ֥ה לִשְׂרֵפָ֖ה מַאֲכֹ֥לֶת אֵֽשׁ׃

*Word for word:* (dm) every boot \[which\].marches with shaking and cloak rolled in blood(s) and it.will.be for burning fuel of.a.fire

*JPS 1917:* For every boot stamped with fierceness, and every cloak rolled in blood, shall even be for burning, for fuel of fire.

[Isaiah 9:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.9.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.9.18/#tree)

בְּעֶבְרַ֛ת יְהוָ֥ה צְבָא֖וֹת נֶעְתַּ֣ם אָ֑רֶץ וַיְהִ֤י הָעָם֙ כְּמַאֲכֹ֣לֶת אֵ֔שׁ אִ֥ישׁ אֶל־אָחִ֖יו לֹ֥א יַחְמֹֽלוּ׃

*Word for word:* by the.wrath of.Yahweh of.hosts it.has.been.scorched \[the\].land and it.was the people like fuel of.a.fire each (to) brother his not they.spared

*JPS 1917:* Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts is the land burnt up; the people also are as the fuel of fire; no man spareth his brother.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3980.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/3980/): 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).