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# מוּסָד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4143

**foundation** — used 2 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/1502/4143/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מוּסָד: n.m. foundation, foundation-laying [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4143/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Is 23:16 foundation, foundation-laying;—מוּסָד Is 28:16 (v. יסד Hoph.); עַד־הַיּוֹם מוּסַד בית י׳ 2 Ch 8:16 until the day (of) the foundation-laying of the house of י׳.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[2 Chronicles 8:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.8.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.8.16/#tree)

וַתִּכֹּן֙ כָּל־מְלֶ֣אכֶת שְׁלֹמֹ֔ה עַד־הַיּ֛וֹם מוּסַ֥ד בֵּית־יְהוָ֖ה וְעַד־כְּלֹת֑וֹ שָׁלֵ֖ם בֵּ֥ית יְהוָֽה׃ס

*Word for word:* and it.was.arranged all the.work of.Solomon until the day of.the.foundation of.the.house of.Yahweh and until it was.complete \[was\].complete the.house of.Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* So all the work of Solomon was set in order from the day of the foundation of the house of the LORD, and until it was finished. So the house of the LORD was perfected.

[Isaiah 28:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.28.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.28.16/#tree)

לָכֵ֗ן כֹּ֤ה אָמַר֙ אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֔ה הִנְנִ֛י יִסַּ֥ד בְּצִיּ֖וֹן אָ֑בֶן אֶ֣בֶן בֹּ֜חַן פִּנַּ֤ת יִקְרַת֙ מוּסָ֣ד מוּסָּ֔ד הַֽמַּאֲמִ֖ין לֹ֥א יָחִֽישׁ׃

*Word for word:* therefore thus he.says Lord \[the\] Yahweh here I he.has.laid in Zion a.stone a.stone of.testing a.corner of.preciousness of.a.foundation founded the.\[one who\].trusts not he.will.make.haste

*JPS 1917:* Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD: Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a costly corner-stone of sure foundation; he that believeth shall not make haste.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4143.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4143/): 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).