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# מֵישַׁע

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4338

**Mesha** — 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

Mesha [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4338/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מֵישַׁע: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4338/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (deliverance)—Mesha, king of Moab 2 K 3:4 = משע MI 1; 𝔊 Μωσα.—v. Sm and SoMI, 1886 DrSm lxxxv ff.

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 (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[2 Kings 3:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.3.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.3.4/#tree)

וּמֵישַׁ֥ע מֶֽלֶךְ־מוֹאָ֖ב הָיָ֣ה נֹקֵ֑ד וְהֵשִׁ֤יב לְמֶֽלֶךְ־יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ מֵאָה־אֶ֣לֶף כָּרִ֔ים וּמֵ֥אָה אֶ֖לֶף אֵילִ֥ים צָֽמֶר׃

*Word for word:* and Mesha the.king of.Moab he.was a.sheep-breeder and he.returned to the.king of.Israel one.hundred thousand lambs and one.hundred thousand rams wool

*JPS 1917:* Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep-master; and he rendered unto the king of Israel the wool of a hundred thousand lambs, and of a hundred thousand rams.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4338.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4338/): 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).