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# מְטִיל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4300

**wrought-metal rod** — 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

wrought-metal rod [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4300/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מְטִיל: n.m. wrought-metal rod [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4300/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. wrought-metal rod (Aramaic (𝔗) מְטָל);—cstr. מְטִיל בַּרְזֶל Jb 40:18 fig. of bones (גְּרָמִים) of hippopot. (‖ עֲצָמָיו אֲפִיקֵי נְחֻשָׁה).

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, 3 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 rod (1).

## In the verses

[Job 40:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.40.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.40.18/#tree)

עֲ֭צָמָיו אֲפִיקֵ֣י נְחוּשָׁ֑ה גְּ֝רָמָ֗יו כִּמְטִ֥יל בַּרְזֶֽל׃

*Word for word:* bones its \[are\].tubes of.bronze limbs its \[are\].like a.rod of.iron

*JPS 1917:* His bones are as pipes of brass; his gristles are like bars of iron.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4300.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4300/): 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).