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# מַחֲבֵא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4224

**hiding-place** — 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

hiding-place [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4224/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַחֲבֵא: hiding-place [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4224/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] hiding-place, only cstr. כְּמַחֲבֵא רוּחַ וְסֵתֶר זֶרֶם Is 32:2 hiding-place from wind.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Isaiah 32:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.32.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.32.2/#tree)

וְהָיָה־אִ֥ישׁ כְּמַֽחֲבֵא־ר֖וּחַ וְסֵ֣תֶר זָ֑רֶם כְּפַלְגֵי־מַ֣יִם בְּצָי֔וֹן כְּצֵ֥ל סֶֽלַע־כָּבֵ֖ד בְּאֶ֥רֶץ עֲיֵפָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.will.be each like a.hiding.place of.a.wind and a.shelter of.a.rainstorm like streams of.water in a.dry.land like.\[the\] shadow of.a.rock heavy in a.land weary

*JPS 1917:* And a man shall be as in a hiding-place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as by the watercourses in a dry place, as in the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4224.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4224/): 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).