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# מוּעָף

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4155

**gloom** — 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

gloom [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4155/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מוּעָף²: gloom [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4155/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] gloom;—Is 8:23.

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

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Isaiah 8:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.8.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.8.23/#tree)

כִּ֣י לֹ֣א מוּעָף֮ לַאֲשֶׁ֣ר מוּצָ֣ק לָהּ֒ כָּעֵ֣ת הָרִאשׁ֗וֹן הֵקַ֞ל אַ֤רְצָה זְבֻלוּן֙ וְאַ֣רְצָה נַפְתָּלִ֔י וְהָאַחֲר֖וֹן הִכְבִּ֑יד דֶּ֤רֶךְ הַיָּם֙ עֵ֣בֶר הַיַּרְדֵּ֔ן גְּלִ֖יל הַגּוֹיִֽם׃

*Word for word:* (dm) not gloom \[will belong\].to.\[that\].which distress \[belonged\].to it like the time (the) former he.treated.with.contempt land (to).the of.Zebulun and.(to) the land of.Naphtali and the.latter \[time\] he.will.honor the.way of the.sea the.other.side of the.Jordan Galilee of the.nations

*JPS 1917:* For is there no gloom to her that was stedfast? Now the former hath lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but the latter hath dealt a more grievous blow by the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, in the district of the nations.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4155.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4155/): 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).