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# מִגְדָּנֹות

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4030

**choice thing** — used 4 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

choice thing [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4030/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִגְדָּנָה: n.f. choice or excellent thing [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4030/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. choice or excellent thing;—pl. abs. מִגְדָּנוֹת, as gifts, Gn 24:53; 2 Ch 21:3; 32:23 (‖ מִנְחָה), Ezr 1:6.

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

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: excellent gifts (3); gifts (1).

## In the verses

[2 Chronicles 32:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.32.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.32.23/#tree)

וְ֠רַבִּים מְבִיאִ֨ים מִנְחָ֤ה לַיהוָה֙ לִיר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם וּמִ֨גְדָּנ֔וֹת לִֽיחִזְקִיָּ֖הוּ מֶ֣לֶךְ יְהוּדָ֑ה וַיִּנַּשֵּׂ֛א לְעֵינֵ֥י כָל־הַגּוֹיִ֖ם מֵאַֽחֲרֵי־כֵֽן׃ס

*Word for word:* and many.\[people\] \[were\].bringing an.offering to Yahweh to Jerusalem and excellent.gifts to Hezekiah the.king of.Judah and he.was.lifted.up to the.eyes of.all the nations from after thus

*JPS 1917:* And many brought gifts unto the LORD to Jerusalem, and precious things to Hezekiah king of Judah; so that he was exalted in the sight of all nations from thenceforth.

[Genesis 24:53](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.24.53/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.24.53/#tree)

וַיּוֹצֵ֨א הָעֶ֜בֶד כְּלֵי־כֶ֨סֶף וּכְלֵ֤י זָהָב֙ וּבְגָדִ֔ים וַיִּתֵּ֖ן לְרִבְקָ֑ה וּמִ֨גְדָּנֹ֔ת נָתַ֥ן לְאָחִ֖יהָ וּלְאִמָּֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* and he.brought.out the servant articles of.silver and articles of.gold and garments and he.gave.\[them\] to Rebekah and excellent.gifts he.gave to brother her and to mother her

*JPS 1917:* And the servant brought forth jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment, and gave them to Rebekah; he gave also to her brother and to her mother precious things.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4030.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4030/): 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).