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# מוֹרָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4177

**razor** — 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

razor [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4177/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מוֹרָה³: n.m. razor [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4177/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. razor (√ dub.; WeSm p. 146 thinks = מַעֲרָה);—razor, always in phr. מ׳ לֹא יַעֲלֶה (עָלָה) עַל־רֹאשׁ Ju 13:5; 16:17 1 S 1:11.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (18 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (11 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a razor (3).

## In the verses

[Judges 13:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.13.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.13.5/#tree)

כִּי֩ הִנָּ֨ךְ הָרָ֜ה וְיֹלַ֣דְתְּ בֵּ֗ן וּמוֹרָה֙ לֹא־יַעֲלֶ֣ה עַל־רֹאשׁ֔וֹ כִּֽי־נְזִ֧יר אֱלֹהִ֛ים יִהְיֶ֥ה הַנַּ֖עַר מִן־הַבָּ֑טֶן וְה֗וּא יָחֵ֛ל לְהוֹשִׁ֥יעַ אֶת־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל מִיַּ֥ד פְּלִשְׁתִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* (dm) here you \[will.be\].pregnant and you.will.bear a.son and a.razor not it.will.go.up on head his (dm) a.Nazirite of.God he.will.be the lad from the womb and he he.will.begin to deliver (et) Israel from the.hand of.\[the\].Philistines

*JPS 1917:* For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come upon his head; for the child shall be a Nazirite unto God from the womb; and he shall begin to save Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.'

[Judges 16:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.16.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.16.17/#tree)

וַיַּגֶּד־לָ֣הּ אֶת־כָּל־לִבּ֗וֹ וַיֹּ֤אמֶר לָהּ֙ מוֹרָה֙ לֹֽא־עָלָ֣ה עַל־רֹאשִׁ֔י כִּֽי־נְזִ֧יר אֱלֹהִ֛ים אֲנִ֖י מִבֶּ֣טֶן אִמִּ֑י אִם־גֻּלַּ֙חְתִּי֙ וְסָ֣ר מִמֶּ֣נִּי כֹחִ֔י וְחָלִ֥יתִי וְהָיִ֖יתִי כְּכָל־הָאָדָֽם׃

*Word for word:* and he.told to her (et) all heart his and he.said to her a.razor not it.has.come.up on head my (dm) \[am\].a.Nazirite of.God I from the.womb my.mother my if I.was.shaved and it.will.depart from me strength my and I.will.be.weak and I.will.be like every (the) man

*JPS 1917:* And he told her all his heart, and said unto her: 'There hath not come a razor upon my head; for I have been a Nazirite unto God from my mother's womb; if I be shaven, then my strength will go from me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man.'

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4177/): 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).