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# מֹדָע

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4129

**kinsman** — 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

kinsman [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4129/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מוֹדַע: n.m. kinsman [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4129/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. kinsman, מידע לְ Ru 2:1 Kt, but Qr מוֹדַע a kinsman of her husband; fig. מֹדָע לַבִּינָה תִקְרָא Pr 7:4 a kinsman shalt thou call understanding (‖ אֱמֹר לְחָכְמָה אֲחֹתִי אָ֑תְּ).

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Proverbs 7:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.7.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.7.4/#tree)

אֱמֹ֣ר לַֽ֭חָכְמָה אֲחֹ֣תִי אָ֑תְּ וּ֝מֹדָ֗ע לַבִּינָ֥ה תִקְרָֽא׃

*Word for word:* say to (the) wisdom sister \[are\].my you and a.relative (to the discernment you.will.call

*JPS 1917:* Say unto wisdom: 'Thou art my sister', and call understanding thy kinswoman;

[Ruth 2:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/RUT.2.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/RUT.2.1/#tree)

וּֽלְנָעֳמִ֞י מוֹדַ֣ע לְאִישָׁ֗הּ אִ֚ישׁ גִּבּ֣וֹר חַ֔יִל מִמִּשְׁפַּ֖חַת אֱלִימֶ֑לֶךְ וּשְׁמ֖וֹ בֹּֽעַז׃

*Word for word:* and.\[belonged\] to Naomi a.relative of husband her a.man mighty of.wealth from the.clan of.Elimelech and name his \[was\].Boaz

*JPS 1917:* And Naomi had a kinsman of her husband's, a mighty man of valour, of the family of Elimelech, and his name was Boaz.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4129.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4129/): 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).