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# מוֹרָד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4174

**descent** — used 5 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

descent [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4174/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מוֹרָד: descent, slope [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4174/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] descent, slope; abs. מו׳ Mi 1:4 + 2 times; cstr. מוֹרַד Jos 10:11 Je 48:5;— descent, slope, as designation of locality Jos 7:5; 10:11 (בְּמ׳ בֵּית־חוֹרֹן; both JE); בְּמ׳ חֹרוֹנַיִם Je 48:5; + חֹרֹנַיִם בַּמּוֹרָד ins. in 2 S 13:34 𝔊 We Dr; in gen. כְּמַיִם מֻגָּרִים בְּמוֹרָד Mi 1:4. מַעֲשֵׂה מוֹרָ֑ד 1 K 7:29 work of descent, i.e. hanging-work (VB).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 48:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.48.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.48.5/#tree)

כִּ֚י מַעֲלֵ֣ה הַלּוּחִ֔יתבִּבְכִ֖י יַֽעֲלֶה־בֶּ֑כִי כִּ֚י בְּמוֹרַ֣ד חוֹרֹנַ֔יִם צָרֵ֥י צַֽעֲקַת־שֶׁ֖בֶר שָׁמֵֽעוּ׃

*Word for word:* (dm) the.ascent of.(the) Luhith with weeping someone.will.ascend weeping (dm) on the.descent of.Horonaim \[the\].distresses of.the.cry.of.distress of.destruction people.will.hear

*JPS 1917:* For by the ascent of Luhith with continual weeping shall they go up; for in the going down of Horonaim they have heard the distressing cry of destruction.

[Micah 1:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.1.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.1.4/#tree)

וְנָמַ֤סּוּ הֶֽהָרִים֙ תַּחְתָּ֔יו וְהָעֲמָקִ֖ים יִתְבַּקָּ֑עוּ כַּדּוֹנַג֙ מִפְּנֵ֣י הָאֵ֔שׁ כְּמַ֖יִם מֻגָּרִ֥ים בְּמוֹרָֽד׃

*Word for word:* and they.will.melt the mountains under him and the valleys they.will.be.cleft like (the) wax from before the fire like water poured.out on a.descent

*JPS 1917:* And the mountains shall be molten under Him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, as waters that are poured down a steep place.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4174/): 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).