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# מַמְרֵא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4471

**Mamre** — 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

Mamre [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4471/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַמְרֵא: n.pr.m. loc. Mamre n.pr.m. n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4471/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. et loc. Mamre, only in Gn: in J only אֵלֹנֵי מַמְרֵא terebinths of M. (n.pr.m.?), Gn 13:18 (defined by אֲשֶׁר בְּחֶבְרוֹן), 18:1 (in both the dwelling-place of Abraham). n.pr.m. in Gn 14:13 (אֵלֹנֵי מ׳ הָאֱמֹרִי), cf. v 24 (where ally of Abr.) n.pr.loc. in P: near Abr.’s place of burial Gn 23:17; 25:9; 49:30; 50:13; appar. identified with Hebron 23:19; 35:27, cf. Di.—𝔊 Μαμβρη.

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 (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Mamre (1); of Mamre (1).

## In the verses

[Genesis 14:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.14.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.14.24/#tree)

בִּלְעָדַ֗י רַ֚ק אֲשֶׁ֣ר אָֽכְל֣וּ הַנְּעָרִ֔ים וְחֵ֙לֶק֙ הָֽאֲנָשִׁ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר הָלְכ֖וּ אִתִּ֑י עָנֵר֙ אֶשְׁכֹּ֣ל וּמַמְרֵ֔א הֵ֖ם יִקְח֥וּ חֶלְקָֽם׃ס

*Word for word:* apart from.me only \[that\].which they.have.eaten the.young men and the.share of the.men who they.went with me Aner Eshcol and Mamre they let.them.take share their

*JPS 1917:* save only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men which went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre, let them take their portion.'

[Genesis 14:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.14.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.14.13/#tree)

וַיָּבֹא֙ הַפָּלִ֔יט וַיַּגֵּ֖ד לְאַבְרָ֣ם הָעִבְרִ֑י וְהוּא֩ שֹׁכֵ֨ן בְּאֵֽלֹנֵ֜י מַמְרֵ֣א הָאֱמֹרִ֗י אֲחִ֤י אֶשְׁכֹּל֙ וַאֲחִ֣י עָנֵ֔ר וְהֵ֖ם בַּעֲלֵ֥י בְרִית־אַבְרָֽם׃

*Word for word:* and he.came the fugitive and he.told to Abram the Hebrew and he \[was\].dwelling at the.great.trees of.Mamre the Amorite the.brother of.Eshcol and the.brother of.Aner and they \[were\].the.partners of.the.covenant of.Abram

*JPS 1917:* And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew — now he dwelt by the terebinths of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner; and these were confederate with Abram.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4471/): 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).