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# מַחְסוֹם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4269

**muzzle** — 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

muzzle [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4269/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַחְסוֹם: n.m. muzzle [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4269/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. muzzle, אֶשְׁמְרָה־לְפִי מ׳ ψ 39:2 let me keep a muzzle to my mouth, to avoid (hasty and) erring speech.

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

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Psalms 39:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.39.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.39.2/#tree)

אָמַ֗רְתִּי אֶֽשְׁמְרָ֣ה דְרָכַי֮ מֵחֲט֪וֹא בִלְשׁ֫וֹנִ֥י אֶשְׁמְרָ֥ה לְפִ֥י מַחְס֑וֹם בְּעֹ֖ד רָשָׁ֣ע לְנֶגְדִּֽי׃

*Word for word:* I.said I.will.guard ways my from sinning with tongue my I.will.keep to mouth my a.muzzle while still \[the\].wicked \[is\].to before me

*JPS 1917:* I said: 'I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue; I will keep a curb upon my mouth, while the wicked is before me.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4269.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4269/): 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).