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# מוּסָב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4141

**encompassing** — 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

encompassing [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4141/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מוּסָב: n.m. encompassing, surrounding [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4141/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. encompassing, surrounding(?);—only cstr. מוּסַב הַבַּיִת Ez 41:7 the encompassing of the house, but meaning wholly obscure; מוּסַף enlargement Ew Berthol ToyHpt after 𝔊; Co del. clause as dittogr.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (5 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: the surrounding (1).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 41:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.41.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.41.7/#tree)

וְֽרָחֲבָ֡ה וְֽנָסְבָה֩ לְמַ֨עְלָה לְמַ֜עְלָה לַצְּלָע֗וֹת כִּ֣י מֽוּסַב־הַ֠בַּיִת לְמַ֨עְלָה לְמַ֜עְלָה סָבִ֤יב ׀ סָבִיב֙ לַבַּ֔יִת עַל־כֵּ֥ן רֹֽחַב־לַבַּ֖יִת לְמָ֑עְלָה וְכֵ֧ן הַתַּחְתּוֹנָ֛ה יַעֲלֶ֥ה עַל־הָעֶלְיוֹנָ֖ה לַתִּיכוֹנָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and it.was.broad and it.surrounded (to) upwards (to) upwards to the side-chambers (dm) the.surrounding of the.house (to) upwards (to) upwards all.around all.around to the house therefore \[the\].breadth of the house (to) upwards and thus the.lower \[story\] someone.will.ascend to the.upper \[story\] to the.middle \[story\]

*JPS 1917:* And the side-chambers were broader as they wound about higher and higher; for the winding about of the house went higher and higher round about the house; therefore the breadth of the house continued upward; and so one went up from the lowest row to the highest by the middle.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4141/): 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).