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# מָחָה

Biblical Hebrew

**strike** — 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

strike [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b8_5d7_5b8_5d4/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מָחָה²: vb. strike [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b8_5d7_5b8_5d4/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. strike (Aramaic מְחָא (ii), ܡܚܳܐ; according to L GeiUrspr. d. Spr. 416 LagSem. i. 26, BN 142 NöZMG xxxii, 1878, 409 weakened from ܡܚܰܥ = مخض, Heb. מָחַץ q.v., cf. Dr§ 178 n.; Assyrian maḫû = crush, oppress, DlHWB 396);— Pf. 3 ms. consec., וּמָחָה עַל־כֶּתֶף וגו׳ Nu 34:11 (P) and the border shall strike upon (reach unto) the shoulder of the sea of Chinnereth (\> Di al. der. from I. מָחָה rub along by, brush past, skirt).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: full of marrow (1); it will reach (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 25:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.25.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.25.6/#tree)

וְעָשָׂה֩ יְהוָ֨ה צְבָא֜וֹת לְכָל־הָֽעַמִּים֙ בָּהָ֣ר הַזֶּ֔ה מִשְׁתֵּ֥ה שְׁמָנִ֖ים מִשְׁתֵּ֣ה שְׁמָרִ֑ים שְׁמָנִים֙ מְמֻ֣חָיִ֔ם שְׁמָרִ֖ים מְזֻקָּקִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and he.will.make Yahweh of.hosts for all the peoples on the mountain (the) this a.feast of.fat.things a.feast of.old.wine(s) fat.things full.of.marrow old.wine(s) refined

*JPS 1917:* And in this mountain will the LORD of hosts make unto all peoples a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.

[Numbers 34:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.34.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.34.11/#tree)

וְיָרַ֨ד הַגְּבֻ֧ל מִשְּׁפָ֛ם הָרִבְלָ֖ה מִקֶּ֣דֶם לָעָ֑יִן וְיָרַ֣ד הַגְּב֔וּל וּמָחָ֛ה עַל־כֶּ֥תֶף יָם־כִּנֶּ֖רֶת קֵֽדְמָה׃

*Word for word:* and it.will.go.down the border from Shepham (the) Riblah from.\[the\] east of Ain and it.will.go.down the border and it.will.reach to the.slope of.the.sea of.Kinnereth eastward

*JPS 1917:* and the border shall go down from Shepham to Riblah, on the east side of Ain; and the border shall go down, and shall strike upon the slope of the sea of Chinnereth eastward;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5de_5b8_5d7_5b8_5d4.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b8_5d7_5b8_5d4/): 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).