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# מוּצָק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4165

**a casting** — used 3 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

a casting [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4165/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מוּצָק: n.m. casting [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4165/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. a casting; מ׳ אֶחָד 1 K 7:37 (of metal); of dust compacted into clod בְּצֶקֶת עָפָר לַמּוּצָק Jb 38:38.—ii. מוצק v. sub צוק.

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 (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: casting (2); lump (1).

## In the verses

[Job 38:38](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.38.38/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.38.38/#tree)

בְּצֶ֣קֶת עָ֭פָר לַמּוּצָ֑ק וּרְגָבִ֥ים יְדֻבָּֽקוּ׃

*Word for word:* when flows \[the\].dust into (the) lump and.\[the\] clods they.are.joined.together

*JPS 1917:* When the dust runneth into a mass, and the clods cleave fast together?

[1 Kings 7:37](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.7.37/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.7.37/#tree)

כָּזֹ֣את עָשָׂ֔ה אֵ֖ת עֶ֣שֶׂר הַמְּכֹנ֑וֹת מוּצָ֨ק אֶחָ֜ד מִדָּ֥ה אַחַ֛ת קֶ֥צֶב אֶחָ֖ד לְכֻלָּֽהְנָה׃ס

*Word for word:* like this he.made (et) the.ten the stands casting one a.measurement one a.shape one \[belonged\].to all of.them

*JPS 1917:* After this manner he made the ten bases; all of them had one casting, one measure, and one form.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4165.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4165/): 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).