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# מוֹסָדָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4146

**foundation** — 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

foundation [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4146/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מוֹסָד: n.m. foundation well [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4146/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. ψ 18:8 foundation;—pl. abs. מוֹסָדוֹת Je 51:26; cstr. מוֹסְדוֹת ψ 18:16 + 2 times, מֹסְדוֹת 2 S 22:16; מוֹסְדֵי Dt 32:22 + 6 times; מֹסְדֵי Mi 6:2;—foundations אֶבֶן למ׳ Je 51:26; מוֹסְדֵי אֶרֶץ foundations of the earth Mi 6:2; Is 24:18; Je 31:37; ψ 82:5 Pr 8:29; מ׳ הא׳ Is 40:21; מ׳ תֵּבֵל ψ 18:16 = 2 S 22:16; מ׳ הרים Dt 32:22 ψ 18:8; 2 S 22:8 has (less well) מ׳ שׁמים; מ׳ דור־ודור Is 58:12 (‖ חָרְבוֹת עולם) i.e. ancient foundations, now ruined.

Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 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 (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the foundations (4); foundations (1).

## In the verses

[2 Samuel 22:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.22.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.22.16/#tree)

וַיֵּֽרָאוּ֙ אֲפִ֣קֵי יָ֔ם יִגָּל֖וּ מֹסְד֣וֹת תֵּבֵ֑ל בְּגַעֲרַ֣ת יְהוָ֔ה מִנִּשְׁמַ֖ת ר֥וּחַ אַפּֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and they.appeared \[the\].channels of.\[the\].sea they.were.uncovered the.foundations of.\[the\].world at the.rebuke of.Yahweh from the.breathing of.the.breath his.nose his

*JPS 1917:* And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were laid bare by the rebuke of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of His nostrils.

[2 Samuel 22:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.22.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.22.8/#tree)

וַיִּתְגָּעַ֤שׁוַתִּרְעַשׁ֙ הָאָ֔רֶץ מוֹסְד֥וֹת הַשָּׁמַ֖יִם יִרְגָּ֑זוּ וַיִּֽתְגָּעֲשׁ֖וּ כִּֽי־חָ֥רָה לֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and it.shook.back.and.forth and it.quaked the earth the.foundations of the.heavens they.trembled and they.shook.back.and.forth (dm) it.burned to him

*JPS 1917:* Then the earth did shake and quake, the foundations of heaven did tremble; they were shaken, because He was wroth.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4146/): 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).