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# מְגֵרָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4050

**saw** — 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

saw [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4050/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מְגֵרָה: n.f. saw [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4050/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. saw (NH id., perhaps from its harsh dragging sound)—מְגֵרָה 2 S 12:31 a + 2 times; pl. מְגֵרוֹת 1 Ch 20:3 (מַגְזְרוֹת 2 S 12:31 b)—saw, used in cutting stone מְגֹרָרוֹת בַּמְּגֵרָה 1 K 7:9; used in torture (or as tools for enforced labour) of captives 2 S 12:31 a 1 Ch 20:3a.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 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 (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: saw (2); saw\[s\] (1); saws (1).

## In the verses

[1 Kings 7:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.7.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.7.9/#tree)

כָּל־אֵ֜לֶּה אֲבָנִ֤ים יְקָרֹת֙ כְּמִדֹּ֣ת גָּזִ֔ית מְגֹרָר֥וֹת בַּמְּגֵרָ֖ה מִבַּ֣יִת וּמִח֑וּץ וּמִמַּסָּד֙ עַד־הַטְּפָח֔וֹת וּמִח֖וּץ עַד־הֶחָצֵ֥ר הַגְּדוֹלָֽה׃

*Word for word:* all these \[were\].stones costly according to.measurements of.hewn.\[stone\] sawn with (the) saw from inside and from outside and from.\[the\] foundation to the.coping stone and from.\[the\] outside to the court (the) great

*JPS 1917:* All these were of costly stones, according to the measures of hewn stones, sawed with saws, within and without, even from the foundation unto the coping, and so on the outside unto the great court.

[1 Chronicles 20:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.20.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.20.3/#tree)

וְאֶת־הָעָ֨ם אֲשֶׁר־בָּ֜הּ הוֹצִ֗יא וַיָּ֨שַׂר בַּמְּגֵרָ֜ה וּבַחֲרִיצֵ֤י הַבַּרְזֶל֙ וּבַמְּגֵר֔וֹת וְכֵן֙ יַעֲשֶׂ֣ה דָוִ֔יד לְכֹ֖ל עָרֵ֣י בְנֵי־עַמּ֑וֹן וַיָּ֧שָׁב דָּוִ֛יד וְכָל־הָעָ֖ם יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם׃פ

*Word for word:* and (et) the people which \[was\].in it he.brought.out and he.sawed with (the) saw and with.(the) picks of.(the) iron and with (the) saws and thus he.did David to all the.cities of.the.people of.Ammon and he.returned David and all the people Jerusalem

*JPS 1917:* And he brought forth the people that were therein, and cut them with saws, and with harrows of iron, and with axes. And thus did David unto all the cities of the children of Ammon. And David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4050.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4050/): 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).