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# מָחוֹז

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4231

**city** — 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

city [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4231/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מָחוֹז: city [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4231/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] city (Assyrian loan-word; from maḫâzu, city, Asrb.Annals iii. 115 and often; v. DlHWB 271; cf. 𝔗 מָחוֹזָא market-place, province, ܡܳܚܽܘܙܳܐ small town)—only cstr. וַיַּנְחֵם אֶל־מְחוֹז חֶפְצָם ψ 107:30 and he guided them unto the city of their desire.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Psalms 107:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.107.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.107.30/#tree)

וַיִּשְׂמְח֥וּ כִֽי־יִשְׁתֹּ֑קוּ וַ֝יַּנְחֵ֗ם אֶל־מְח֥וֹז חֶפְצָֽם׃

*Word for word:* and they.rejoiced (dm) they.were.quiet and he guided.them to the.harbor their.desire their

*JPS 1917:* Then were they glad because they were quiet, and He led them unto their desired haven.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4231.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4231/): 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).