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# מָזוֹן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4202

**food** — used 2 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

food [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4202/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מָזוֹן: n.m. food, sustenance [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4202/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. food, sustenance (so Talm Biblical Aramaic Syriac)—בָּר וָלֶחֶם וּמָזוֹן Gn 45:23 (Di ‘מ׳ rather an Aramaic word; perhaps later gloss for orig. צֵדָה v 21; 42:25’); הַמָּזוֹן לָרֹב 2 Ch 11:23.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 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: provision\[s\] (2).

## In the verses

[Genesis 45:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.45.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.45.23/#tree)

וּלְאָבִ֞יו שָׁלַ֤ח כְּזֹאת֙ עֲשָׂרָ֣ה חֲמֹרִ֔ים נֹשְׂאִ֖ים מִטּ֣וּב מִצְרָ֑יִם וְעֶ֣שֶׂר אֲתֹנֹ֡ת נֹֽ֠שְׂאֹת בָּ֣ר וָלֶ֧חֶם וּמָז֛וֹן לְאָבִ֖יו לַדָּֽרֶךְ׃

*Word for word:* and to father his he.sent according to.this ten donkeys carrying some of.the.good.thing\[s\] of.Egypt and ten female.donkeys carrying grain and food and provision\[s\] for father his for the journey

*JPS 1917:* And to his father he sent in like manner ten asses laden with the good things of Egypt, and ten she-asses laden with corn and bread and victual for his father by the way.

[2 Chronicles 11:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.11.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.11.23/#tree)

וַיָּבֶן֩ וַיִּפְרֹ֨ץ מִכָּל־בָּנָ֜יו לְֽכָל־אַרְצ֧וֹת יְהוּדָ֣ה וּבִנְיָמִ֗ן לְכֹל֙ עָרֵ֣י הַמְּצֻר֔וֹת וַיִּתֵּ֥ן לָהֶ֛ם הַמָּז֖וֹן לָרֹ֑ב וַיִּשְׁאַ֖ל הֲמ֥וֹן נָשִֽׁים׃

*Word for word:* and he.acted.wisely and he.distributed some of.all sons his to all the.lands of.Judah and Benjamin to all the.cities of.(the) fortifications and he.gave to them (the) provision\[s\] to abundance and he.sought a.multitude of.wives

*JPS 1917:* And he dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his sons throughout all the lands of Judah and Benjamin, unto every fortified city; and he gave them victual in abundance. And he sought for them many wives.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4202/): 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).