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# מַדְחֵפָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4073

**thrust** — 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

thrust [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4073/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַדְחֵפָה: n.f. thrust [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4073/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. thrust, ψ 140:12 יְצוּדֶנּוּ לְמַדְחֵפֹת (evil) shall hunt him with thrust upon thrust (Che, cf. De).

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

## In the verses

[Psalms 140:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.140.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.140.12/#tree)

אִ֥ישׁ לָשׁוֹן֮ בַּל־יִכּ֪וֹן בָּ֫אָ֥רֶץ אִישׁ־חָמָ֥ס רָ֑ע יְ֝צוּדֶ֗נּוּ לְמַדְחֵפֹֽת׃

*Word for word:* a.person of.tongue not let.him.be.established in the land a.person of.violence trouble let it.hunt.him for blows

*JPS 1917:* A slanderer shall not be established in the earth; the violent and evil man shall be hunted with thrust upon thrust.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4073.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4073/): 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).