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# מָחַק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4277

**utterly destroy** — 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

utterly destroy [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4277/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מָחַק: vb. utterly destroy, annihilate [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4277/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. utterly destroy, annihilate (cf. GFM) (NH id., wipe or rub off, erase; Aramaic מְחַק id.; Arabic مَحَقَ utterly destroy, annihilate);—only 3 fs.: מָֽחֲקָה רֹאשׁוֹ Ju 5:26 (‖ הָלַם, מָחַץ, חָלַף).

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, 2 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: she shattered (1).

## In the verses

[Judges 5:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.5.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.5.26/#tree)

יָדָהּ֙ לַיָּתֵ֣ד תִּשְׁלַ֔חְנָה וִֽימִינָ֖הּ לְהַלְמ֣וּת עֲמֵלִ֑ים וְהָלְמָ֤ה סִֽיסְרָא֙ מָחֲקָ֣ה רֹאשׁ֔וֹ וּמָחֲצָ֥ה וְחָלְפָ֖ה רַקָּתֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* hand her to the peg they.stretched.out and her.right hand to a.hammer of.laborers and she.struck Sisera she.shattered head his and she.smashed and she.pierced temple his

*JPS 1917:* Her hand she put to the tent-pin, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote through his head, yea, she pierced and struck through his temples.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4277.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4277/): 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).