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# מִכְרֶה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4379

**pit** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

pit [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4379/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִכְרֶה: n.m. pit [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4379/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. pit (?), only cstr. מִכְרֵה־מֶלַח Zp 2:9 salt-pit (but not certain).

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 (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, 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: a pit (1).

## In the verses

[Zephaniah 2:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEP.2.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEP.2.9/#tree)

לָכֵ֣ן חַי־אָ֡נִי נְאֻם֩ יְהוָ֨ה צְבָא֜וֹת אֱלֹהֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל כִּֽי־מוֹאָ֞ב כִּסְדֹ֤ם תִּֽהְיֶה֙ וּבְנֵ֤י עַמּוֹן֙ כַּֽעֲמֹרָ֔ה מִמְשַׁ֥ק חָר֛וּל וּמִכְרֵה־מֶ֥לַח וּשְׁמָמָ֖ה עַד־עוֹלָ֑ם שְׁאֵרִ֤ית עַמִּי֙ יְבָזּ֔וּם וְיֶ֥תֶר גּוֹיִ֖י יִנְחָלֽוּם׃

*Word for word:* therefore \[by\].the.life of.me the.utterance of.Yahweh of.hosts the.God of.Israel (dm) Moab like Sodom it.will.be and the.people of.Ammon like Gomorrah a.place.possessed of.weed\[s\] and a.pit of.salt and a.waste until perpetuity the.remnant my.people my they will.plunder.them and the.rest my.nation my they will.take.possession.of.them

*JPS 1917:* Therefore as I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding-place of nettles, and saltpits, and a desolation, for ever; the residue of My people shall spoil them, and the remnant of My nation shall inherit them.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4379/): 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).