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# מַהֲלֻמוֹת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4112

**strokes** — 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

strokes [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4112/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַהֲלֻמֿוֹת: n.f.pl. strokes, blows [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4112/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f.pl. strokes, blows (cf. Ph. מהלם stroke, stamp, impression, once on a coin מהלם אגדר coinage of Gader (Gades), = percussura, κόμμα, Ges Mon. pl. 40, xv. c also p. 307)—Pr 18:6 (cf. Baer) 19:29, both times of blows on the body.

Why these entries: BDB: headword without dagesh, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword without dagesh, 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: beatings (2).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 19:29](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.19.29/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.19.29/#tree)

נָכ֣וֹנוּ לַלֵּצִ֣ים שְׁפָטִ֑ים וּ֝מַהֲלֻמ֗וֹת לְגֵ֣ו כְּסִילִֽים׃

*Word for word:* they.are.prepared for (the) mockers judgments and beatings for.\[the\] back of.fools

*JPS 1917:* Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.

[Proverbs 18:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.18.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.18.6/#tree)

שִׂפְתֵ֣י כְ֭סִיל יָבֹ֣אֽוּ בְרִ֑יב וּ֝פִ֗יו לְֽמַהֲלֻמ֥וֹת יִקְרָֽא׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].lips of.a.fool they.go in strife and mouth his for beatings it.calls

*JPS 1917:* A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4112.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4112/): 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).