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# מִכְתָּם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4387

**Mikhtām** — used 6 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

Mikhtām [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4387/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִכְתָּם: Mikhtām [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4387/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] Mikhtām, a term. techn. in ψ-titles, meaning unknown (𝔊 στηλογραφία: cf. Bae Ps. p. xiii f.); always c. לְדָוִד:—מ׳ לְדָוִד ψ 16:1; 60:1; לְדָוִד מ׳ 56:1; 57:1; 58:1; 59:1.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: 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: a miktam (6).

## In the verses

[Psalms 58:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.58.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.58.1/#tree)

לַמְנַצֵּ֥חַ אַל־תַּשְׁחֵ֗ת לְדָוִ֥ד מִכְתָּֽם׃

*Word for word:* to the choirmaster al- tashcheth of David a.miktam

*JPS 1917:* For the Leader; Al-tashheth. A Psalm of David; Michtam.

[Psalms 16:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.16.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.16.1/#tree)

מִכְתָּ֥ם לְדָוִ֑דשָֽׁמְרֵ֥נִי אֵ֝֗ל כִּֽי־חָסִ֥יתִי בָֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* a.miktam of David protect me O.God (dm) I.have.taken.refuge in you

*JPS 1917:* Michtam of David. Keep me, O God; for I have taken refuge in Thee.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4387/): 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).