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# מָגוֹג

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4031

**Magog** — 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

Magog [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4031/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מָגוֹג: n.pr.terr. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4031/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.terr. (= land of Gog? cf. DlPa 246 LenOr. ii. 1, 465)—Ez 38:2; 39:6; in Gn 10:2 = 1 Ch 1:5 a son of Japhet, בְּנֵי יֶפֶת גֹּמֶר וּמָגוֹג וּמָדַי וְיָוָן וְתֻבָ֑ל וּמֶשֶׁךְ וְתִירָס; = Scythians? cf. JosAnt. i, 6, 1; LagGes Abh. 158 refers name to mountainous region between Cappadocia and Media; cf. Di Gn 10:2, KiepMBAk Feb. 1889, 207 (N. & E. Armenia), Len (SE. Armenia), v. especially LenOr. ii. 1, 412–476.

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

## In the verses

[Genesis 10:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.10.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.10.2/#tree)

בְּנֵ֣י יֶ֔פֶת גֹּ֣מֶר וּמָג֔וֹג וּמָדַ֖י וְיָוָ֣ן וְתֻבָ֑ל וּמֶ֖שֶׁךְ וְתִירָֽס׃

*Word for word:* the.sons of.Japheth \[were\].Gomer and Magog and Madai and Javan and Tubal and Meshech and Tiras

*JPS 1917:* The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.

[1 Chronicles 1:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.5/#tree)

בְּנֵ֣י יֶ֔פֶת גֹּ֣מֶר וּמָג֔וֹג וּמָדַ֖י וְיָוָ֣ן וְתֻבָ֑ל וּמֶ֖שֶׁךְ וְתִירָֽס׃ס

*Word for word:* the.sons of.Japheth \[were\].Gomer and Magog and Madai and Javan and Tubal and Meshech and Tiras

*JPS 1917:* The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4031.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4031/): 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).