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# מוֹט

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4132

**shaking** — used 4 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

shaking [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4132/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מוֹט²: shaking, pole, bar [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4132/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] shaking, pole, bar of yoke;—abs. מ׳ Nu 4:10 + 5 times; sf. מֹטֵ֫הוּ Na 1:13;— a shaking, tottering (c. neg., of security) לֹא־יִתֵּן מ׳ לַצַּדִּיק ψ 55:23; לֹא נָתַן לַמּ׳ רַגְלֵנוּ ψ 66:9, cf. 121:3. pole, or bar for carrying (named from springing motion) Nu 4:10, 12 cf. especially 13:23. bar of yoke Na 1:13 (אֶשְׁבֹּר מֹטֵהוּ מֵעָלַיִךְ), fig. of oppression. Cf. following.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: frame (2); pole (1); yoke-bar (1).

## In the verses

[Nahum 1:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/NAM.1.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/NAM.1.13/#tree)

וְעַתָּ֕ה אֶשְׁבֹּ֥ר מֹטֵ֖הוּ מֵֽעָלָ֑יִךְ וּמוֹסְרֹתַ֖יִךְ אֲנַתֵּֽק׃

*Word for word:* and now I.will.break yoke-bar his from on you and fetters your I.will.tear.apart

*JPS 1917:* And now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds in sunder.

[Numbers 4:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.4.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.4.10/#tree)

וְנָתְנ֤וּ אֹתָהּ֙ וְאֶת־כָּל־כֵּלֶ֔יהָ אֶל־מִכְסֵ֖ה ע֣וֹר תָּ֑חַשׁ וְנָתְנ֖וּ עַל־הַמּֽוֹט׃

*Word for word:* and they.will.put it and (et) all articles its into a.covering of.skin of.dolphin and they.will.put.\[it\] on the.carrying frame

*JPS 1917:* And they shall put it and all the vessels thereof within a covering of sealskin, and shall put it upon a bar.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4132.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4132/): 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).