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# מָדוּ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4063

**garment** — used 2 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

garment [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4063/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מָ֫דוּ: n.m. garment [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4063/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** ii. \[מַדְוֶה\] n.m. garment;—pl. sf. מַדְוֵיהֶם 2 S 10:4 = 1 Ch 19:4.

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 (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: robes (2).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 19:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.19.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.19.4/#tree)

וַיִּקַּ֨ח חָנ֜וּן אֶת־עַבְדֵ֤י דָוִיד֙ וַֽיְגַלְּחֵ֔ם וַיִּכְרֹ֧ת אֶת־מַדְוֵיהֶ֛ם בַּחֵ֖צִי עַד־הַמִּפְשָׂעָ֑ה וַֽיְשַׁלְּחֵֽם׃

*Word for word:* and he.took Hanun (et) the.servants of.David and he shaved.them and he.cut.off (et) robes their in the middle to the buttock\[s\] and he sent.them.away

*JPS 1917:* So Hanun took David's servants, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their hips, and sent them away.

[2 Samuel 10:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.10.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.10.4/#tree)

וַיִּקַּ֨ח חָנ֜וּן אֶת־עַבְדֵ֣י דָוִ֗ד וַיְגַלַּח֙ אֶת־חֲצִ֣י זְקָנָ֔ם וַיִּכְרֹ֧ת אֶת־מַדְוֵיהֶ֛ם בַּחֵ֖צִי עַ֣ד שְׁתֽוֹתֵיהֶ֑ם וַֽיְשַׁלְּחֵֽם׃

*Word for word:* and he.took Hanun (et) the.servants of.David and he.shaved (et) (the).half their.beard their and he.cut.off (et) robes their in the middle to buttocks their and he sent.them.away

*JPS 1917:* So Hanun took David's servants, and shaved off the one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4063.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4063/): 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).