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# מוֹטָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4133

**pole** — used 12 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

pole [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4133/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מוֹטָה: n.f. pole, bar [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4133/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. pole, bar of yoke, mostly late (cf. מוֹט);—מ׳ Je 28:10 + 4 times; pl. מֹטוֹת etc., abs. Je 27:2 1 Ch 15:15; cstr. Ez 30:18 + 4 times;— pole, pl., staves, for bearing ark 1 Ch 15:15. bar of yoke, symb., of oppression Je 27:2 (‖ מוֹסֵרוֹת, cf. עֹל v 8, 11, 12), 28:10, 12 (cf. עֹל v 11); מ׳ עֵץ 28:13; מ׳ בַּרְזֶל v 13 (cf. עֹל v 14); fig. of oppression, Is 58:6, 9 Ez 30:18; cf. (thongs of yoke) אֲגֻדּוֹת מ׳ Is 58:6; מֹטֹת עֻלְּכֶם Lv 26:13 cf. Ez 34:27.—On form of yoke v. SchumacherZPV xii. 1889, 160, BenzArch. 207.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (7 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: yoke-bar (3); yoke-bars (3); the bars (2).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 27:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.27.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.27.2/#tree)

כֹּֽה־אָמַ֤ר יְהוָה֙ אֵלַ֔י עֲשֵׂ֣ה לְךָ֔ מוֹסֵר֖וֹת וּמֹט֑וֹת וּנְתַתָּ֖ם עַל־צַוָּארֶֽךָ׃

*Word for word:* thus he.said Yahweh to me make for yourself fetters and yoke-bars and you will.put.them on neck your

*JPS 1917:* 'Thus saith the LORD to me: Make thee bands and bars, and put them upon thy neck;

[Jeremiah 28:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.28.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.28.10/#tree)

וַיִּקַּ֞ח חֲנַנְיָ֤ה הַנָּבִיא֙ אֶת־הַמּוֹטָ֔ה מֵעַ֕ל צַוַּ֖אר יִרְמְיָ֣ה הַנָּבִ֑יא וַֽיִּשְׁבְּרֵֽהוּ׃

*Word for word:* and he.took Hananiah the prophet (et) the yoke-bar from on the.neck of.Jeremiah the prophet and he broke.it

*JPS 1917:* Then Hananiah the prophet took the bar from off the prophet Jeremiah's neck, and broke it.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4133.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4133/): 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).