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# מֶגֶד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4022

**excellence** — used 8 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

excellence [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4022/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מֶ֫גֶד: n.m. excellence [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4022/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. excellence (NH id., choice fruit; Syriac ܡܰܓܕܳܐ fruit; Arabic مَجْدٌ glory, honour, nobility);—מ׳ cstr. Dt 33:13 + 4 times Dt 33; pl. מְגָדִים Ct 4:13; 7:14; sf. מְגָדָיו Ct 4:16—excellence: excellent or choice things; always of gifts of nature: מ׳ שָׁמַיִם Dt 33:13 i.e. (natural) gifts of heaven; מ׳ תְּבוּאֹת שֶׁמֶשׁ v 14; מ׳ גֶּרֶשׁ יְרָחִים v 14; מ׳ גִּבְעוֹת עוֹלָם v 15 (‖ רֹאשׁ הַרֲרֵי קֶדֶם); מ׳ אֶרֶץ וּמְלֹאָהּ v 16; pl. abstr. פְּרִי מ׳ (= excellent fruit) Ct 4:13, 16; מ׳ alone = foreg., 7:14.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 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: excellent gift (5); excellent things (1); its excellence(s) (1).

## In the verses

[Deuteronomy 33:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.33.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.33.14/#tree)

וּמִמֶּ֖גֶד תְּבוּאֹ֣ת שָׁ֑מֶשׁ וּמִמֶּ֖גֶד גֶּ֥רֶשׁ יְרָחִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and from.\[the\] excellent.gift of.\[the\].produce(s) of.\[the\].sun and from.\[the\] excellent.gift of.\[the\].yield of.\[the\].months

*JPS 1917:* And for the precious things of the fruits of the sun, and for the precious things of the yield of the moons,

[Deuteronomy 33:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.33.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.33.15/#tree)

וּמֵרֹ֖אשׁ הַרְרֵי־קֶ֑דֶם וּמִמֶּ֖גֶד גִּבְע֥וֹת עוֹלָֽם׃

*Word for word:* and from.\[the\] top of.\[the\].mountains of.ancient.time and from.\[the\] excellent.gift of.\[the\].hills of.antiquity

*JPS 1917:* And for the tops of the ancient mountains, and for the precious things of the everlasting hills,

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4022.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4022/): 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).