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# מֹוסָד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4144

**foundation** — used 8 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/1502/4144/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מוֹסָד: n.m. foundation well [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4144/#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: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, 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 (7); foundations (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 82:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.82.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.82.5/#tree)

לֹ֤א יָֽדְע֨וּ ׀ וְלֹ֥א יָבִ֗ינוּ בַּחֲשֵׁכָ֥ה יִתְהַלָּ֑כוּ יִ֝מּ֗וֹטוּ כָּל־מ֥וֹסְדֵי אָֽרֶץ׃

*Word for word:* not they.know and not they.understand in darkness they.walk.about they.are.shaken all \[the\].foundations of.\[the\].earth

*JPS 1917:* They know not, neither do they understand; they go about in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are moved.

[Psalms 18:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.18.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.18.8/#tree)

וַתִּגְעַ֬שׁ וַתִּרְעַ֨שׁ ׀ הָאָ֗רֶץ וּמוֹסְדֵ֣י הָרִ֣ים יִרְגָּ֑זוּ וַ֝יִּתְגָּֽעֲשׁ֗וּ כִּי־חָ֥רָה לֽוֹ׃

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

*JPS 1917:* Then the earth did shake and quake, the foundations also of the mountains 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/1502/4144/): 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).