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# מוֹצָאָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4163

**family descent** — 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

family descent [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4163/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מוֹצָאָה: n.f. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4163/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. only pl.: Mi 5:1 מוֹצָאוֹתָיו (of future ruler out of Bethlehem), his origin. 2 K 10:27 Qr מוֹצָאוֹת places of going out to, i.e. a privy (cf. Arabic مَخْرَجٌ; Germ. Abtritt), euphemistically for Kt מַחֲרָאוֹת.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[2 Kings 10:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.10.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.10.27/#tree)

וַֽיִּתְּצ֔וּ אֵ֖ת מַצְּבַ֣ת הַבָּ֑עַל וַֽיִּתְּצוּ֙ אֶת־בֵּ֣ית הַבַּ֔עַל וַיְשִׂמֻ֥הוּ לְמֽוֹצָא֖וֹת עַד־הַיּֽוֹם׃

*Word for word:* and they.pulled.down (et) the.sacred.pillar of.(the) Baal and they.pulled.down (et) the.house of.(the) Baal and they made.it (into) outhouses until this day

*JPS 1917:* And they broke down the pillar of Baal, and broke down the house of Baal, and made it a draught-house, unto this day.

[Micah 5:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.5.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.5.1/#tree)

וְאַתָּ֞ה בֵּֽית־לֶ֣חֶםבֵּֽית־לֶ֣חֶם אֶפְרָ֗תָה צָעִיר֙ לִֽהְיוֹת֙ בְּאַלְפֵ֣י יְהוּדָ֔ה מִמְּךָ֙ לִ֣י יֵצֵ֔א לִֽהְי֥וֹת מוֹשֵׁ֖ל בְּיִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וּמוֹצָאֹתָ֥יו מִקֶּ֖דֶם מִימֵ֥י עוֹלָֽם׃

*Word for word:* and you O Bethlehem Ephrathah \[are\].insignificant to be among the.families of.Judah from you for me someone.will.go.out to be ruler over Israel and origins his \[are\].from antiquity from days of.antiquity

*JPS 1917:* But thou, Beth-lehem Ephrathah, which art little to be among the thousands of Judah, out of thee shall one come forth unto Me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth are from of old, from ancient days.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4163/): 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).