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# מֵישָׁע

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4337

**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/1502/4337/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מֵישָׁע: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4337/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (deliverance)—son of Caleb 1 Ch 2:42, 𝔊 Μαρεισα, 𝔖L Μουσα.

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, 0 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: \[were\] Mesha (1).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 2:42](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.2.42/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.2.42/#tree)

וּבְנֵ֤י כָלֵב֙ אֲחִ֣י יְרַחְמְאֵ֔ל מֵישָׁ֥ע בְּכֹר֖וֹ ה֣וּא אֲבִי־זִ֑יף וּבְנֵ֥י מָרֵשָׁ֖ה אֲבִ֥י חֶבְרֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* and the.sons of.Caleb the.brother of.Jerahmeel \[were\].Mesha firstborn his he \[was\].the.father of.Ziph and the.sons of.Mareshah \[were\].the.father of.Hebron

*JPS 1917:* And the sons of Caleb the brother of Jerahmeel were Mesha his first-born, who was the father of Ziph, and the sons of Mareshah the father of Hebron.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4337.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4337/): 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).