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# מוֹלָדָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4137

**Moladah** — 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

Moladah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4137/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מוֹלָדָה: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4137/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. town in Simeon מוֹל׳ Jos 19:2 = 1 Ch 4:28; inhabited after exile Ne 11:26; name occurs also Jos 15:26 (where prob. interpol. from Ne 11:26 v Di); 𝔊 Μωλαδα, etc.; identified by RobBR ii, 201 GuérinJudée iii, 184 ff. with Tel Milḥ, 4 hours E. from Beersheba = Μαλαθα JosAnt. xviii. 6, 2; Μαλα(α)θων, Malatha LagOnom. 214.266.87.119, v also Di.

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

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Moladah (4).

## In the verses

[Joshua 15:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.26/#tree)

אֲמָ֥ם וּשְׁמַ֖ע וּמוֹלָדָֽה׃

*Word for word:* Amam and Shema and Moladah

*JPS 1917:* Amam, and Shema, and Moladah;

[1 Chronicles 4:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.4.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.4.28/#tree)

וַיֵּֽשְׁב֛וּ בִּבְאֵֽר־שֶׁ֥בַעבְאֵֽר־שֶׁ֥בַע וּמוֹלָדָ֖ה וַחֲצַ֥ר שׁוּעָֽל חֲצַ֥ר שׁוּעָֽל׃

*Word for word:* and they.dwelt in Beer Sheba and Moladah and Hazar Shual

*JPS 1917:* And they dwelt at Beer-sheba, and Moladah, and Hazar-shual;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4137.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4137/): 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).