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# מֵיתָר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4340

**cord** — used 9 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

cord [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4340/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מֵיתָר: n.m. cord, string [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4340/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. cord, string (cf. ii. יֶתֶר); of tent-cords מֵתָרַי Je 10:20; מֵיתָרַיִךְ Is 54:2; specif. of cords of tabernacle, מֵיתָרָיו Ex 39:40 Nu 3:26; מֵיתְרֵיהֶם Ex 35:18 Nu 3:37; 4:26, 32 (all P); of bow-strings מֵיתָרֶיךָ ψ 21:13.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: tent-cords (8); bowstrings (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 21:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.21.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.21.13/#tree)

כִּ֭י תְּשִׁיתֵ֣מוֹ שֶׁ֑כֶם בְּ֝מֵֽיתָרֶ֗יךָ תְּכוֹנֵ֥ן עַל־פְּנֵיהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* (dm) you will.make.them a.shoulder on bowstrings your you.will.prepare on faces their

*JPS 1917:* For thou shalt make them turn their back, thou shalt make ready with thy bowstrings against the face of them.

[Exodus 35:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.35.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.35.18/#tree)

אֶת־יִתְדֹ֧ת הַמִּשְׁכָּ֛ן וְאֶת־יִתְדֹ֥ת הֶחָצֵ֖ר וְאֶת־מֵיתְרֵיהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* (et) the.tent.pegs of the.tabernacle and (et) the.tent.pegs of the.courtyard and (et) tent-cords their

*JPS 1917:* the pins of the tabernacle, and the pins of the court, and their cords;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4340.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4340/): 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).