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# מִיכָל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4323

**brook** — 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

brook [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4323/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִיכָל: brook, stream [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4323/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] brook, stream(?) (dubious word, cf. Drad loc. HPS), cstr. מִיכַל הַמָּ֑יִם 2 S 17:20.

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 (2 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[2 Samuel 17:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.17.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.17.20/#tree)

וַיָּבֹ֣אוּ עַבְדֵי֩ אַבְשָׁל֨וֹם אֶֽל־הָאִשָּׁ֜ה הַבַּ֗יְתָה וַיֹּֽאמְרוּ֙ אַיֵּ֗ה אֲחִימַ֙עַץ֙ וִיה֣וֹנָתָ֔ן וַתֹּ֤אמֶר לָהֶם֙ הָֽאִשָּׁ֔ה עָבְר֖וּ מִיכַ֣ל הַמָּ֑יִם וַיְבַקְשׁוּ֙ וְלֹ֣א מָצָ֔אוּ וַיָּשֻׁ֖בוּ יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ס

*Word for word:* and they.came the.servants of.Absalom to the woman to the house and they.said where? \[are\].Ahimaaz and Jonathan and she.said to them the woman they.have.passed.over the.brook of.(the) water and they.sought.\[them\] and not they.found.\[them\] and they.returned Jerusalem

*JPS 1917:* And Absalom's servants came to the woman to the house; and they said: 'Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?' And the woman said unto them: 'They are gone over the brook of water.' And when they had sought and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4323/): 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).