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# מִלֵּאת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4402

**setting** — 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

setting [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4402/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִלֵּאת: n.f. setting better border, rim [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4402/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. dub.: only ישְׁבוֹת עַל־מ׳ Ct 5:12 of lover’s eyes; A E De BaeKau setting, perhaps better border, rim, Öt Wild fulness, abundance, of surrounding of eye.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 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: fullness (1).

## In the verses

[Song of Songs 5:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.5.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.5.12/#tree)

עֵינָ֕יו כְּיוֹנִ֖ים עַל־אֲפִ֣יקֵי מָ֑יִם רֹֽחֲצוֹת֙ בֶּֽחָלָ֔ב יֹשְׁב֖וֹת עַל־מִלֵּֽאת׃

*Word for word:* eyes his \[are\].like doves at channels of.water washing in (the) milk sitting on fullness

*JPS 1917:* His eyes are like doves beside the water-brooks; washed with milk, and fitly set.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4402.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4402/): 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).