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# מְגַמַּת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4041

**accumulation** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

accumulation [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4041/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מְגַמָּה: n.f. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4041/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. Hb 1:9 (of the Chaldaeans) מְגַמַּת פְּנֵיהֶם קָדִ֑ימָה, of uncertain meaning: Ges the assembling of their faces is (directed) forwards; Ew De Ke eagerness, comparing (questionably) גָּמָא swallow Jb 39:24, and جَامَ (Freyt.) seek (whence St proposes מְגֻמַת). Text prob. erron.

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

## In the verses

[Habakkuk 1:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAB.1.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAB.1.9/#tree)

כֻּלֹּה֙ לְחָמָ֣ס יָב֔וֹא מְגַמַּ֥ת פְּנֵיהֶ֖ם קָדִ֑ימָה וַיֶּאֱסֹ֥ף כַּח֖וֹל שֶֽׁבִי׃

*Word for word:* of.it all for violence it.comes the.totality their.faces their eastward \[is\] and it.gathered like (the) sand captive\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* They come all of them for violence; their faces are set eagerly as the east wind; and they gather captives as the sand.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4041.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4041/): 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).