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# מֵידְבָא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4311

**Medeba** — used 5 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Medeba [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4311/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מֵידְבָא: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4311/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. city in Moab (MI 8 מהדבה)—Nu 21:30 Is 15:2; Jos 13:9, 16 assigned to Reuben (𝔊 Δαιδαβαν, Μαιδαβα, 𝔊L Μεδαβα); 1 Ch 19:7 meeting-place of Ammonites (𝔊 Μαιθαβα, A 𝔊L Μηδαβα).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 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: Medeba (5).

## In the verses

[Numbers 21:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.21.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.21.30/#tree)

וַנִּירָ֛ם אָבַ֥ד חֶשְׁבּ֖וֹן עַד־דִּיב֑וֹן וַנַּשִּׁ֣ים עַד־נֹ֔פַח אֲשֶׁ֖רׄעַד־מֵֽידְבָֽא׃

*Word for word:* and we shot.at.them it.has.perished Heshbon to Dibon and we.have.devastated to Nophah which \[is\].to Medeba

*JPS 1917:* We have shot at them — Heshbon is perished — even unto Dibon, and we have laid waste even unto Nophah, which reacheth unto Medeba.

[Joshua 13:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.13.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.13.9/#tree)

מֵעֲרוֹעֵ֡ר אֲשֶׁר֩ עַל־שְׂפַת־נַ֨חַל אַרְנ֜וֹן וְהָעִ֨יר אֲשֶׁ֧ר בְּתוֹךְ־הַנַּ֛חַל וְכָל־הַמִּישֹׁ֥ר מֵידְבָ֖א עַד־דִּיבֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* from Aroer which \[is\].on the.edge of.the.wadi of.Arnon and the city which \[is\].in the.middle of the.wadi and all the plain Medeba to Dibon

*JPS 1917:* from Aroer, that is on the edge of the valley of Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the table-land from Medeba unto Dibon;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4311.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4311/): 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).