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# מִכְלָא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4356

**enclosure** — 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

enclosure [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4356/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִכְלָה: enclosure, fold [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4356/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** (incorrect for מכלא) n.\[m.\] enclosure, fold;—גָּזַר מִמּ׳ צֹאן Hb 3:17; pl. cstr. לקח מִמִּכְלְאֹת צֹאן ψ 78:70 (obj. David); pl. sf. לקח מִמִּכְלְאֹתֶיךָ 50:9 (obj. he-goats).—ii. מִכְלָה v. sub כלה.

Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: folds (2); fold (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 50:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.50.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.50.9/#tree)

לֹא־אֶקַּ֣ח מִבֵּיתְךָ֣ פָ֑ר מִ֝מִּכְלְאֹתֶ֗יךָ עַתּוּדִֽים׃

*Word for word:* not I.will.accept from household your a.young.bull from folds your goats

*JPS 1917:* I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he-goats out of thy folds.

[Psalms 78:70](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.78.70/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.78.70/#tree)

וַ֭יִּבְחַר בְּדָוִ֣ד עַבְדּ֑וֹ וַ֝יִּקָּחֵ֗הוּ מִֽמִּכְלְאֹ֥ת צֹֽאן׃

*Word for word:* and he.chose (in) David servant his and he took.him from.\[the\] folds of.sheep

*JPS 1917:* He chose David also His servant, and took him from the sheepfolds;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4356.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4356/): 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).