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# מִכְמָר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4364

**net** — used 2 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/1502/4364/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִכְמָר: net, snare [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4364/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] net, snare, bringing an animal to its fall, כְּתוֹא מ׳ Is 51:20 like an antelope of (in) a net or snare (cf. ii. חֵרֶם p. 357, ii. רֶשֶׁת p. 440).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 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 own (1); of a net (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 141:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.141.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.141.10/#tree)

יִפְּל֣וּ בְמַכְמֹרָ֣יו רְשָׁעִ֑ים יַ֥חַד אָ֝נֹכִ֗י עַֽד־אֶעֱבֽוֹר׃

*Word for word:* let.them.fall in his.own nets wicked.\[people\] together I until I.will.pass.by

*JPS 1917:* Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst I withal escape.

[Isaiah 51:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.51.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.51.20/#tree)

בָּנַ֜יִךְ עֻלְּפ֥וּ שָׁכְב֛וּ בְּרֹ֥אשׁ כָּל־חוּצ֖וֹת כְּת֣וֹא מִכְמָ֑ר הַֽמְלֵאִ֥ים חֲמַת־יְהוָ֖ה גַּעֲרַ֥ת אֱלֹהָֽיִךְ׃

*Word for word:* children your they.have.become.faint they.have.lain.down at.\[the\] head of.all \[the\].streets like an.antelope of.a.net \[they are\].full the.anger of.Yahweh the.rebuke your.God your

*JPS 1917:* Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as an antelope in a net; they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of thy God.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4364.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4364/): 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).