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# מָגוֹר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4032

**fear** — used 9 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

fear [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4032/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מָגוֹר²: n.m. fear, terror [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4032/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. fear, terror—abs. מ׳ ψ 31:14 + 6 times + Je 20:3 cf. infr.; pl. sf. מְגוּרַי La 2:22;—fear, terror Is 31:9; = cause of terror Je 20:4; elsewhere in phrase, coined by Jerem, מ׳ מִסָּבִיב terror on every side Je 6:25; 20:3 (where as n.pr.), v 10; 46:5; 49:29 ψ 31:14; La 2:22 (מְגוּרַי מִסּ׳).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 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, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: terror (6); Magor- (1); a terror (1).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 6:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.6.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.6.25/#tree)

אַל־תֵּֽצְאוּ֙ הַשָּׂדֶ֔ה וּבַדֶּ֖רֶךְ אַל־תֵּלֵ֑כוּ כִּ֚י חֶ֣רֶב לְאֹיֵ֔ב מָג֖וֹר מִסָּבִֽיב׃

*Word for word:* do.not go.out the field and on the road do.not walk (dm) a.sword \[belongs\].to.\[the\] enemy terror \[is\].from round.about

*JPS 1917:* Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for there is the sword of the enemy, and terror on every side.

[Psalms 31:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.31.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.31.14/#tree)

כִּ֤י שָׁמַ֨עְתִּי ׀ דִּבַּ֥ת רַבִּים֮ מָג֪וֹר מִסָּ֫בִ֥יב בְּהִוָּסְדָ֣ם יַ֣חַד עָלַ֑י לָקַ֖חַת נַפְשִׁ֣י זָמָֽמוּ׃

*Word for word:* (dm) I.have.heard \[the\].whispering of.many.\[people\] terror \[is\].from around.about when they seated.themselves together on me to take life my they.planned

*JPS 1917:* For I have heard the whispering of many, terror on every side; while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4032.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4032/): 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).