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# מוּצָק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4164

**constraint** — 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

constraint [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4164/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מוּצָק⁴: constraint, distress [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4164/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] constraint, distress;—abs. מוּצָק Is 8:23 distress; abs. also מוּצַק Jb 36:16, of distress as constraint (opp. רַחַב); רֹחַב מַיִם בְּמוּצָ֑ק 37:10, lit. in constraint (i.e. forzen).—i. מוּצָק v. יצק.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 2 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: constraint (2); distress (1).

## In the verses

[Job 37:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.37.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.37.10/#tree)

מִנִּשְׁמַת־אֵ֥ל יִתֶּן־קָ֑רַח וְרֹ֖חַב מַ֣יִם בְּמוּצָֽק׃

*Word for word:* from the.breath of.God it.gives ice and.\[the\] breadth of.\[the\].waters \[is\].(in) constraint

*JPS 1917:* By the breath of God ice is given, and the breadth of the waters is straitened.

[Job 36:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.36.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.36.16/#tree)

וְאַ֤ף הֲסִיתְךָ֨ ׀ מִפִּי־צָ֗ר רַ֭חַב לֹא־מוּצָ֣ק תַּחְתֶּ֑יהָ וְנַ֥חַת שֻׁ֝לְחָנְךָ֗ מָ֣לֵא דָֽשֶׁן׃

*Word for word:* and also he has.allured.you from.\[the\] mouth of.distress a.broad.space not constraint in its.place and the.quietness your.table your it.was.full fatness

*JPS 1917:* Yea, He hath allured thee out of distress into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which is set on thy table is full of fatness;

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4164/): 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).