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# מוֹתָר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4195

**abundance** — 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

abundance [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4195/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מוֹתָר: n.m. abundance, pre-eminence [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4195/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Pr 14:23 abundance, pre-eminence;— abundance, plenty מוֹתָ֑ר Pr 14:23; 21:5 (in both opp. מַחְסוֹר). 2, מוֹתַר הָאָדָם מִן־הַבְּהֵמָה אָיִן Ec 3:19 the superiority of man over beast is nothing.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Proverbs 14:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.14.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.14.23/#tree)

בְּכָל־עֶ֭צֶב יִהְיֶ֣ה מוֹתָ֑ר וּדְבַר־שְׂ֝פָתַ֗יִם אַךְ־לְמַחְסֽוֹר׃

*Word for word:* in all hard.labor it.is profit and word of.lips \[is\].only to lack

*JPS 1917:* In all labour there is profit; but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.

[Proverbs 21:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.21.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.21.5/#tree)

מַחְשְׁב֣וֹת חָ֭רוּץ אַךְ־לְמוֹתָ֑ר וְכָל־אָ֝֗ץ אַךְ־לְמַחְסֽוֹר׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].plans of.a.diligent.\[person\] \[are\].only to profit and every \[one.who\].hastens \[is\].only to lack

*JPS 1917:* The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but every one that is hasty hasteth only to want.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4195/): 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).