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# מְחִלָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4247

**hole** — 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

hole [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4247/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מְחִלָּה: n.f. hole [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4247/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. hole, מְחִלּוֹת עָפָר holes of the dust Is 2:19 (‖ מְעָרוֹת צֻרִים cause of the rocks).

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 (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Isaiah 2:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.2.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.2.19/#tree)

וּבָ֙אוּ֙ בִּמְעָר֣וֹת צֻרִ֔ים וּבִמְחִלּ֖וֹת עָפָ֑ר מִפְּנֵ֞י פַּ֤חַד יְהוָה֙ וּמֵהֲדַ֣ר גְּאוֹנ֔וֹ בְּקוּמ֖וֹ לַעֲרֹ֥ץ הָאָֽרֶץ׃

*Word for word:* and people.will.go in caves of.\[the\].rocks and in holes of.\[the\].ground from before the.dread of.Yahweh and from the.splendor his.majesty his when arises he to terrify the earth

*JPS 1917:* And men shall go into the caves of the rocks, and into the holes of the earth, from before the terror of the LORD, and from the glory of His majesty, when He ariseth to shake mightily the earth.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4247.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4247/): 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).