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# מוֹרָשׁ

Biblical Hebrew

**a possession** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

a possession [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5d5_5b9_5e8_5b8_5e9_5c1/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מוֹרָשׁ: possession [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5d5_5b9_5e8_5b8_5e9_5c1/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] a possession;—cstr. מוֹרַשׁ קִפֹּד Is 14:23 a possession for bitterns; וְיָֽרְשׁוּ בֵּית יַעֲקֹב אֵת מוֹרָשֵׁיהֶם Ob 17 and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions (but read perhaps מורישׁיהם their dispossessors, 𝔊 𝔙 𝔗 al.); fig. מוֹרָשֵׁי לְבָבִי Jb 17:11, i.e. my cherished thoughts (‖ זִמּוֹתַי), but fig. is questionable, v. Di, who derives from ארשׁ desire, so Buhl.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Job 17:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.17.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.17.11/#tree)

יָמַ֣י עָ֭בְרוּ זִמֹּתַ֣י נִתְּק֑וּ מ֖וֹרָשֵׁ֣י לְבָבִֽי׃

*Word for word:* days my they.have.passed plans my they.have.been.torn.apart the.wishes my.heart my

*JPS 1917:* My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5de_5d5_5b9_5e8_5b8_5e9_5c1.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5d5_5b9_5e8_5b8_5e9_5c1/): 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).