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# מָלוֹן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4411

**lodging-place** — used 8 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

lodging-place [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4411/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מָלוֹן: n.m. lodging-place, inn, khan [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4411/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. lodging-place, inn, khan;—abs. מ׳ Gn 42:27 + 5 times; cstr. מְלוֹן 2 K 19:23; Je 9:1;—lodging-place, inn, khal (?) Gn 42:27; 43:21; Ex 4:24; מְ׳ אֹרְחִים Je 9:1; = camp (of Isr.) for a night, Jos 4:3 (+ לין), v 8; of Assyrians Is 10:29; fig. מְלוֹן קִצֹּה֯ 2 K 19:23, i.e. its (Lebanon’s) remotest camping-ground, hyperb. of Assyrian conquest; so read prob. in ‖ Is 37:24 for MT מְרוֹם ק׳, cf. Di Du Kit CheHpt..

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: place (5); \[will be\] a lodging place (1); a lodging place (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 10:29](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.10.29/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.10.29/#tree)

עָֽבְרוּ֙ מַעְבָּרָ֔ה גֶּ֖בַע מָל֣וֹן לָ֑נוּ חָֽרְדָה֙ הָֽרָמָ֔ה גִּבְעַ֥ת שָׁא֖וּל נָֽסָה׃

*Word for word:* they.have.passed.over \[the\].pass Geba \[will.be\].a.lodging.place for us it.has.trembled (the) Ramah Gibeah of.Saul it.has.fled

*JPS 1917:* They are gone over the pass; they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah trembleth; Gibeath-shaul is fled.

[Exodus 4:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.4.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.4.24/#tree)

וַיְהִ֥י בַדֶּ֖רֶךְ בַּמָּל֑וֹן וַיִּפְגְּשֵׁ֣הוּ יְהוָ֔ה וַיְבַקֵּ֖שׁ הֲמִיתֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and it.was on the journey at the.lodging place and he met.him Yahweh and he.sought to kill.him

*JPS 1917:* And it came to pass on the way at the lodging-place, that the LORD met him, and sought to kill him.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4411.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4411/): 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).