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# מִזְרֶה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4214

**pitch-fork** — 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

pitch-fork [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4214/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִזְרֶה: pitch-fork [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4214/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] pitch-fork, with six prongs (= مذراة) used in winnowing, cf. WetzstZPV 1891, xiv. 2; for winnowing provender זֹרֶה בָרַחַת וּבְמ׳ Is 30:24; fig. for winnowing, i.e. chastising the people וָאֶזְרֵם בְּמ׳ Je 15:7.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 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: a winnowing fork (1); pitchfork (1).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 15:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.15.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.15.7/#tree)

וָאֶזְרֵ֥ם בְּמִזְרֶ֖ה בְּשַׁעֲרֵ֣י הָאָ֑רֶץ שִׁכַּ֤לְתִּי אִבַּ֙דְתִּי֙ אֶת־עַמִּ֔י מִדַּרְכֵיהֶ֖ם לוֹא־שָֽׁבוּ׃

*Word for word:* and I have.winnowed.them with a.winnowing.fork in the.gates of the.land I.have.made.childless I.have.destroyed (et) people my from ways their not they.have.turned.away

*JPS 1917:* And I fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I bereave them of children, I destroy My people, since they return not from their ways.

[Isaiah 30:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.30.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.30.24/#tree)

וְהָאֲלָפִ֣ים וְהָעֲיָרִ֗ים עֹֽבְדֵי֙ הָֽאֲדָמָ֔ה בְּלִ֥יל חָמִ֖יץ יֹאכֵ֑לוּ אֲשֶׁר־זֹרֶ֥ה בָרַ֖חַת וּבַמִּזְרֶֽה׃

*Word for word:* and the cattle(s) and the.male donkeys \[which\].till (of).the ground fodder salted they.will.eat which \[someone.has.been\].winnowing with the shovel and with the pitchfork

*JPS 1917:* The oxen likewise and the young asses that till the ground shall eat savoury provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4214/): 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).