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# מַדְקָרָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4094

**piercing** — 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

piercing [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4094/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַדְקָרָה: n.f. piercing, stab, thrust [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4094/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. piercing, stab, thrust, only pl. cstr. כְּמַדְקְרוֹת חָ֑רֶב Pr 12:18 like thrusts of a sword, sim. of rash speaking.

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: thrusts (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 12:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.12.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.12.18/#tree)

יֵ֣שׁ בּ֭וֹטֶהכְּמַדְקְר֣וֹת חָ֑רֶב וּלְשׁ֖וֹן חֲכָמִ֣ים מַרְפֵּֽא׃

*Word for word:* there.\[is\] \[one.who\].speaks.rashly like thrusts of.a.sword and.\[the\] tongue of.wise.\[people\] \[is\].healing

*JPS 1917:* There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword; but the tongue of the wise is health.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4094/): 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).