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# מִכְוָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4348

**burnt-spot** — 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

burnt-spot [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4348/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִכְוָה: n.f. burnt-spot, scar of burn [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4348/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. burnt-spot, scar of a burn; מִכְוַת־אֵשׁ Lv 13:24; מִכְוָה v 24, 25, 28(×2) (all P).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (7 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the burn (3); a burn (1); burn (1).

## In the verses

[Leviticus 13:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.13.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.13.24/#tree)

א֣וֹ בָשָׂ֔ר כִּֽי־יִהְיֶ֥ה בְעֹר֖וֹ מִכְוַת־אֵ֑שׁ וְֽהָיְתָ֞ה מִֽחְיַ֣ת הַמִּכְוָ֗ה בַּהֶ֛רֶת לְבָנָ֥ה אֲדַמְדֶּ֖מֶת א֥וֹ לְבָנָֽה׃

*Word for word:* or flesh (dm) it.will.be on skin its a.burn of.fire and it.will.be the.raw.spot of the.burn a.bright.spot white reddish or white

*JPS 1917:* Or when the flesh hath in the skin thereof a burning by fire, and the quick flesh of the burning become a bright spot, reddish-white, or white;

[Leviticus 13:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.13.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.13.28/#tree)

וְאִם־תַּחְתֶּיהָ֩ תַעֲמֹ֨ד הַבַּהֶ֜רֶת לֹא־פָשְׂתָ֤ה בָעוֹר֙ וְהִ֣וא כֵהָ֔ה שְׂאֵ֥ת הַמִּכְוָ֖ה הִ֑וא וְטִֽהֲרוֹ֙ הַכֹּהֵ֔ן כִּֽי־צָרֶ֥בֶת הַמִּכְוָ֖ה הִֽוא׃פ

*Word for word:* and if in its.place it.will.stay the.bright spot not it.has.spread in the skin and it \[is\].dull \[is\].the.swelling of the.burn it and he will.declare.him.pure the priest (dm) \[is\].the.scar of the.burn it

*JPS 1917:* And if the bright spot stay in its place, and be not spread in the skin, but be dim, it is the rising of the burning, and the priest shall pronounce him clean; for it is the scar of the burning.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4348.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4348/): 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).