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# מִכְמֶרֶת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4365

**net** — 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

net [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4365/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִכְמֶ֫רֶת: n.f. net, fishing-net [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4365/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. net, fishing-net; sg. sf. מִכְמַרְתּוֹ Hb 1:15 (‖ חַכָּה, and חֵרֶם), v 16, both in fig. of conquering Chaldeans.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 2 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, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Isaiah 19:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.19.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.19.8/#tree)

וְאָנוּ֙ הַדַּיָּגִ֔ים וְאָ֣בְל֔וּ כָּל־מַשְׁלִיכֵ֥י בַיְא֖וֹר חַכָּ֑ה וּפֹרְשֵׂ֥י מִכְמֹ֛רֶת עַל־פְּנֵי־מַ֖יִם אֻמְלָֽלוּ׃

*Word for word:* and they.will.lament the fishermen and they.will.mourn all \[those.who\].cast in the River a.fish.hook and \[those.who\].spread.out (of).a.fishing.net on \[the\].surface of.\[the\].waters they.will.languish

*JPS 1917:* The fishers also shall lament, and all they that cast angle into the Nile shall mourn, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.

[Habakkuk 1:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAB.1.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAB.1.15/#tree)

כֻּלֹּה֙ בְּחַכָּ֣ה הֵֽעֲלָ֔ה יְגֹרֵ֣הוּ בְחֶרְמ֔וֹ וְיַאַסְפֵ֖הוּ בְּמִכְמַרְתּ֑וֹ עַל־כֵּ֖ן יִשְׂמַ֥ח וְיָגִֽיל׃

*Word for word:* of.it all with a.fish.hook he.brings.up he drags.it.away in net his and he gathers.it in his.fishing net therefore he.rejoices and he.is.glad

*JPS 1917:* They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag; therefore they rejoice and exult.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4365/): 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).