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# מַהֲמֹרֹות

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4113

**flood** — 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

flood [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4113/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַהֲמֹרָה: n.f. flood watery pit [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4113/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. flood (cf. Arabic √), or watery pit (proposes place of flowing waters; cf. Symm βοθύνους, and NH, NHWB iii. 40)—only pl. מַהֲמֹרוֹת ψ 140:11 (Gr Che מכמרות, nets, v. sub כמר; comp. רֶשֶׁת v 6).

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

## In the verses

[Psalms 140:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.140.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.140.11/#tree)

יִמּ֥וֹטוּ עֲלֵיהֶ֗ם גֶּֽחָ֫לִ֥ים בָּאֵ֥שׁ יַפִּלֵ֑ם בְּ֝מַהֲמֹר֗וֹת בַּֽל־יָקֽוּמוּ׃

*Word for word:* may.they.be.dropped on them burning.coals in the fire let someone.make.them.fall in pits not let.them.arise

*JPS 1917:* Let burning coals fall upon them; let them be cast into the fire, into deep pits, that they rise not up again.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4113.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4113/): 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).