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# מָג

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7248

**melt** — 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

melt [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/7248/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מָ֑ג: n.m. soothsayer, magian [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/7248/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. soothsayer, magian (loan-word from Assyrian maḫḫû. soothsayer, DlHWB397; perhaps orig. Sumerian, DlHA14);—רַב־מָ֑ג Je 39:3, 13 chief-soothsayer, in train of Nebuchadrezzar.

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

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 39:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.39.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.39.13/#tree)

וַיִּשְׁלַ֞ח נְבֽוּזַרְאֲדָ֣ן רַב־טַבָּחִ֗ים וּנְבֽוּשַׁזְבָּן֙רַב־סָרִ֔יס וְנֵרְגַ֥ל שַׂר־אֶ֖צֶר נֵרְגַ֥ל שַׂר־אֶ֖צֶרנֵרְגַ֥ל שַׂר־אֶ֖צֶר רַב־מָ֑ג וְכֹ֖ל רַבֵּ֥י מֶֽלֶךְ־בָּבֶֽל׃

*Word for word:* and he.sent Nebuzaradan \[the\].chief of.\[the\].bodyguards and Nebushazban \[the\].Rab- saris and Nergal-Sharezer Nergal-Sharezer Nergal-Sharezer \[the\].Rab- mag and all the.chiefs of.the.king of.Babylon

*JPS 1917:* So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard sent, and Nebushazban Rab-saris, and Nergal-sarezer Rab-mag, and all the chief officers of the king of Babylon;

[Jeremiah 39:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.39.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.39.3/#tree)

וַיָּבֹ֗אוּ כֹּ֚ל שָׂרֵ֣י מֶֽלֶךְ־בָּבֶ֔ל וַיֵּשְׁב֖וּ בְּשַׁ֣עַר הַתָּ֑וֶךְ נֵרְגַ֣ל שַׂר־֠אֶצֶר נֵרְגַ֣ל שַׂר־֠אֶצֶרנֵרְגַ֣ל שַׂר־֠אֶצֶר סַֽמְגַּר־נְב֞וּסַֽמְגַּר־נְב֞וּ שַׂר־סְכִ֣יםשַׂר־סְכִ֣ים רַב־סָרִ֗יס נֵרְגַ֤ל שַׂר־אֶ֙צֶר֙ נֵרְגַ֤ל שַׂר־אֶ֙צֶר֙נֵרְגַ֤ל שַׂר־אֶ֙צֶר֙ רַב־מָ֔ג וְכָל־שְׁאֵרִ֔ית שָׂרֵ֖י מֶ֥לֶךְ בָּבֶֽל׃

*Word for word:* and they.came all the.officials of.the.king of.Babylon and they.sat in the.gate of the.middle Nergal-Sharezer Nergal-Sharezer Nergal-Sharezer Samgar Nebu Sarsekim Sarsekim \[the\].Rab- saris Nergal-Sharezer Nergal-Sharezer Nergal-Sharezer \[the\].Rab- mag and all the.rest of.the.officials of.the.king of.Babylon

*JPS 1917:* that all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in the middle gate, even Nergal-sarezer, Samgar-nebo, Sarsechim Rab-saris, Nergal-sarezer Rab-mag, with all the residue of the princes of the king of Babylon.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7248.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/7248/): 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).