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# מְאֵרָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3994

**a curse** — used 5 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

a curse [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/3994/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מְאֵרָה: n.f. curse [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/3994/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. a curse Dt 28:20 Mal 2:2; 3:9; cstr. מְאֵרַת Pr 3:33; pl. מְאֵרוֹת Pr 28:27.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 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: curse (3); of curses (1); the curse (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 3:33](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.3.33/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.3.33/#tree)

מְאֵרַ֣ת יְ֭הוָה בְּבֵ֣ית רָשָׁ֑ע וּנְוֵ֖ה צַדִּיקִ֣ים יְבָרֵֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* the.curse of.Yahweh \[is\].on.\[the\] house of.\[the\].wicked and.\[the\] habitation of.righteous.\[people\] he.blesses

*JPS 1917:* The curse of the LORD is in the house of the wicked; but He blesseth the habitation of the righteous.

[Proverbs 28:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.28.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.28.27/#tree)

נוֹתֵ֣ן לָ֭רָשׁ אֵ֣ין מַחְס֑וֹר וּמַעְלִ֥ים עֵ֝ינָ֗יו רַב־מְאֵרֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* \[one.who\].gives to the poor there.\[is\].not lack and \[one.who\].hides eyes his \[is\].great of.curses

*JPS 1917:* He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack; but he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3994.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/3994/): 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).