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# מֹורֶה

Biblical Hebrew

**teacher** — used 4 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

teacher [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b9_5d5_5e8_5b6_5d4/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מוֹרֶה²: n.m. teacher [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b9_5d5_5e8_5b6_5d4/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Is 30, 20 teacher;—abs. in אֵלוֹן מוֹרֶה Gn 12:6 (J) = אֵלוֹנֵי מֹרֶה Dt 11:30 (Sam 𝔊 אֵלוֹן), the teacher’s terebinth (see אֵלוֹן) near Shechem; cf. גִּבְעַת הַמּוֹרֶה Ju 7:1 teacher’s hill near the plain of Jezreel, prob. Little Hermon, Nebî Daḥî BdPal. 244; the terebinth being a holy tree from which divine teaching was given, and the hill of the teacher the seat of a holy place whence divine teaching was given; see also (of God) Jb 36:22; here belong prob. likewise מוֹרָ֑י Pr 5:13, and מוֹרֶיךָ Is 30:20(×2).

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (17 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, 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: teachers (2); \[is\] a teacher (1); my teachers (1).

## In the verses

[Job 36:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.36.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.36.22/#tree)

הֶן־אֵ֭ל יַשְׂגִּ֣יב בְּכֹח֑וֹ מִ֖י כָמֹ֣הוּ מוֹרֶֽה׃

*Word for word:* there! God he.is.exalted in power his who? like him \[is\].a.teacher

*JPS 1917:* Behold, God doeth loftily in His power; who is a teacher like Him?

[Proverbs 5:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.5.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.5.13/#tree)

וְֽלֹא־שָׁ֭מַעְתִּי בְּק֣וֹל מוֹרָ֑י וְ֝לִֽמְלַמְּדַ֗י לֹא־הִטִּ֥יתִי אָזְנִֽי׃

*Word for word:* and not I.listened to the.voice my.teachers my and to \[those who\].taught.me not I.inclined ear my

*JPS 1917:* Neither have I hearkened to the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b9_5d5_5e8_5b6_5d4/): 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).