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# מְלִיצָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4426

**satire** — 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

satire [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4426/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מְלִיצָה: satire, mocking-poem [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4426/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[f.\] satire, mocking-poem Hb 2:6, also Pr 1:6 (al. here figure, enigma).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 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 mocking song (1); a parable (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 1:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.1.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.1.6/#tree)

לְהָבִ֣ין מָ֭שָׁל וּמְלִיצָ֑ה דִּבְרֵ֥י חֲ֝כָמִ֗ים וְחִידֹתָֽם׃

*Word for word:* to understand a.proverb and a.parable \[the\].words of.learned.ones and parables their

*JPS 1917:* To understand a proverb, and a figure; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.

[Habakkuk 2:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAB.2.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAB.2.6/#tree)

הֲלוֹא־אֵ֣לֶּה כֻלָּ֗ם עָלָיו֙ מָשָׁ֣ל יִשָּׂ֔אוּ וּמְלִיצָ֖ה חִיד֣וֹת ל֑וֹ וְיֹאמַ֗ר ה֚וֹי הַמַּרְבֶּ֣ה לֹּא־ל֔וֹ עַד־מָתַ֕י וּמַכְבִּ֥יד עָלָ֖יו עַבְטִֽיט׃

*Word for word:* ? not these.\[nations\] of.them all on him a.saying will.they.lift.up and a.mocking.song riddles to him and will.someone.say? woe.to! the.\[one who\].increases \[that.which\].not \[belongs\].to him until when? and \[one.who\].makes.heavy on himself pledge\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting riddle against him, and say: 'Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! how long? and that ladeth himself with many pledges!'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4426.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4426/): 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).