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# מְכוּרָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4351

**origin** — used 3 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

origin [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4351/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מְכֹרָה: n.f. origin [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4351/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. origin (i.e. place of digging out?)—sg. sf. אֶרֶץ מְכוּרָתָם Ez 29:14; of a people, persons: pl. sf. בְּאֶרֶץ מְכֻרוֹתַיִךְ 21:35 (‖ בִּמְקוֹם אֲשֶׁר נִבְרֵאת); of Jerus., מְכֹרֹתַיִךְ וּמֹלְדֹתַיִךְ מֵאֶרֶץ הַכְּנַעֲנִי 16:3.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, 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: origins (1); their origin (1); your origins (1).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 21:35](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.21.35/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.21.35/#tree)

הָשַׁ֖ב אֶל־תַּעְרָ֑הּ בִּמְק֧וֹם אֲשֶׁר־נִבְרֵ֛את בְּאֶ֥רֶץ מְכֻרוֹתַ֖יִךְ אֶשְׁפֹּ֥ט אֹתָֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* put.\[it\].back into sheath its in the.place (of).where you.were.created in the.land your.origins your I.will.judge you

*JPS 1917:* Cause it to return into its sheath! — In the place where thou wast created, in the land of thine origin, will I judge thee.

[Ezekiel 29:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.29.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.29.14/#tree)

וְשַׁבְתִּי֙ אֶת־שְׁב֣וּת מִצְרַ֔יִם וַהֲשִׁבֹתִ֤י אֹתָם֙ אֶ֣רֶץ פַּתְר֔וֹס עַל־אֶ֖רֶץ מְכֽוּרָתָ֑ם וְהָ֥יוּ שָׁ֖ם מַמְלָכָ֥ה שְׁפָלָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and I.will.turn.back (et) the.captivity of.Egypt and I.will.bring.back them the.land of.Pathros to \[the\].land their.origin their and they.will.be there a.kingdom lowly

*JPS 1917:* and I will turn the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to return into the land of Pathros, into the land of their origin; and they shall be there a lowly kingdom.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4351/): 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).