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# מְזִיחַ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4206

**belt** — 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

belt [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4206/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מְזִיחַ: n.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4206/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. id. (of like orig.):—only cstr. מ׳ אֲפִיקִים רִפָּה Jb 12:21 loosen the girdle of mighty; i.e. weaken them, make them defenceless, by ungirding.

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, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Job 12:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.12.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.12.21/#tree)

שׁוֹפֵ֣ךְ בּ֭וּז עַל־נְדִיבִ֑ים וּמְזִ֖יחַ אֲפִיקִ֣ים רִפָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* \[he.is\].pouring contempt on noble.\[people\] and.\[the\] belt of.strong.people he.loosens

*JPS 1917:* He poureth contempt upon princes, and looseth the belt of the strong.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4206.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4206/): 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).