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# מוּךְ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4134

**be low** — used 5 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

be low [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4134/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מוּךְ: vb. be low, depressed, grow poor [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4134/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. be low, depressed, grow poor (NH id., Niph.; Aramaic מוּךְ, sink or bend down; cf. מָכַךְ, Syriac ܡܰܟ, ܡܟܶܟ, be brought low, humble);— Pf. consec. וּמָךְ Lv 27:8 (P); Impf. יָמוּךְ Lv 25:25, 35, 39 (all H); Pt. מָךְ Lv 25:47 (P): all of impoverished Israelites.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 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: he will become impoverished (4); \[is too\] impoverished (1).

## In the verses

[Leviticus 25:39](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.25.39/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.25.39/#tree)

וְכִֽי־יָמ֥וּךְ אָחִ֛יךָ עִמָּ֖ךְ וְנִמְכַּר־לָ֑ךְ לֹא־תַעֲבֹ֥ד בּ֖וֹ עֲבֹ֥דַת עָֽבֶד׃

*Word for word:* and (dm) he.will.become.impoverished brother your with you and he.will.sell.himself to you not you.will.labor by him \[the\].labor of.a.slave

*JPS 1917:* And if thy brother be waxen poor with thee, and sell himself unto thee, thou shalt not make him to serve as a bondservant.

[Leviticus 25:35](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.25.35/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.25.35/#tree)

וְכִֽי־יָמ֣וּךְ אָחִ֔יךָ וּמָ֥טָה יָד֖וֹ עִמָּ֑ךְ וְהֶֽחֱזַ֣קְתָּ בּ֔וֹ גֵּ֧ר וְתוֹשָׁ֛ב וָחַ֖י עִמָּֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* and (dm) he.will.become.impoverished brother your and it.will.slip hand his with you and you.will.strengthen (in) him a.sojourner and a.resident.alien and he.will.live with you

*JPS 1917:* And if thy brother be waxen poor, and his means fail with thee; then thou shalt uphold him: as a stranger and a settler shall he live with thee.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4134.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4134/): 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).