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# מְבוּכָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3998

**confusion** — 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

confusion [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/3998/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִבוּכָה: n.f. confusion, confounding [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/3998/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. confusion, confounding, Is 22:5 יוֹם מְהוּמָה וּמְבוּסָה וּמְבוּכָה a day of consternation and down-treading and confusion; Mi 7:4 עַתָּה תִּהְיֶה מְבוּכָתָם now shall be their confusion.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 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: confusion (2).

## In the verses

[Micah 7:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.7.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.7.4/#tree)

טוֹבָ֣ם כְּחֵ֔דֶק יָשָׁ֖ר מִמְּסוּכָ֑ה י֤וֹם מְצַפֶּ֙יךָ֙ פְּקֻדָּתְךָ֣ בָ֔אָה עַתָּ֥ה תִהְיֶ֖ה מְבוּכָתָֽם׃

*Word for word:* their.good person \[is\].like a.thorn-bush an.upright.\[person\] more than.a.thorn.hedge the.day of your.watchmen punishment your it.has.come now it.will.be confusion their

*JPS 1917:* The best of them is as a brier; the most upright is worse than a thorn hedge; the day of thy watchmen, even thy visitation, is come; now shall be their perplexity.

[Isaiah 22:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.22.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.22.5/#tree)

כִּ֣י יוֹם֩ מְהוּמָ֨ה וּמְבוּסָ֜ה וּמְבוּכָ֗ה לַֽאדֹנָ֧י יְהוִ֛ה צְבָא֖וֹת בְּגֵ֣יא חִזָּי֑וֹן מְקַרְקַ֥ר קִ֖ר וְשׁ֥וֹעַ אֶל־הָהָֽר׃

*Word for word:* (dm) a.day of.panic and trampling and confusion \[belongs\].to \[the\] Lord Yahweh of.hosts in.\[the\] valley of.vision breaking.down a.wall and crying.out to the mountain

*JPS 1917:* For it is a day of trouble, and of trampling, and of perplexity, from the Lord, the GOD of hosts, in the Valley of Vision; Kir shouting, and Shoa at the mount.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/3998/): 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).