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# מַזְמֵרָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4211

**pruning-knife** — 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

pruning-knife [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4211/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַזִמֵרָה: n.f. pruning-knife [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4211/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. pruning-knife, only pl. וְכָרַת הַזַּלְזַלִּים בַּמַּזְמֵרוֹת Is 18:5; לְמַזְמֵרוֹת Is 2:4 Mi 4:3 (both ‖ לְאִתִּים); וּמַזְמֵרֹתֵיכֶם Jo 4:10 (‖ אִתֵּיכֶם).

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Joel 4:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOL.4.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOL.4.10/#tree)

כֹּ֤תּוּ אִתֵּיכֶם֙ לַֽחֲרָב֔וֹת וּמַזְמְרֹֽתֵיכֶ֖ם לִרְמָחִ֑ים הַֽחַלָּ֔שׁ יֹאמַ֖ר גִּבּ֥וֹר אָֽנִי׃

*Word for word:* beat plowshares your into swords and your.pruning knives into spears the.weak \[man\] let.him.say \[am\].a.warrior I

*JPS 1917:* Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning-hooks into spears; let the weak say: 'I am strong.'

[Isaiah 18:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.18.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.18.5/#tree)

כִּֽי־לִפְנֵ֤י קָצִיר֙ כְּתָם־פֶּ֔רַח וּבֹ֥סֶר גֹּמֵ֖ל יִֽהְיֶ֣ה נִצָּ֑ה וְכָרַ֤ת הַזַּלְזַלִּים֙ בַּמַּזְמֵר֔וֹת וְאֶת־הַנְּטִישׁ֖וֹת הֵסִ֥יר הֵתַֽז׃

*Word for word:* (dm) before harvest just as.is.finished bud\[s\] and unripe.grape\[s\] ripening it.will.become blossom and he.will.cut.off the shoots with.(the) pruning knives and (et) the tendrils he.will.remove he.will.cut.away

*JPS 1917:* For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the bud becometh a ripening grape, He will cut off the sprigs with pruning-hooks, and the shoots will He take away and lop off.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4211.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4211/): 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).