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# מֵן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4482

**string** — 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

string [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4482/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מֵן: string [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4482/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] string (of harp) (prob. loan-word from Aramaic ܡܶܢܬܳܐ, hair, string PS 2163); pl. מִנִּים ψ 150:4, so also prob. 45:9 (read מִנִּים for MT מִנִּי, cf. Che Bae We \> Ges§ 87, 1. b Hup al., who think מִנִּי an apoc. pl.)

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (13 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (9 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Psalms 150:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.150.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.150.4/#tree)

הַֽ֭לְלוּהוּ בְתֹ֣ף וּמָח֑וֹל הַֽ֝לְל֗וּהוּ בְּמִנִּ֥ים וְעוּגָֽב׃

*Word for word:* praise him with tambourine and dancing praise him with stringed.instruments and flute

*JPS 1917:* Praise Him with the timbrel and dance; praise Him with stringed instruments and the pipe.

[Psalms 45:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.45.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.45.9/#tree)

מֹר־וַאֲהָל֣וֹת קְ֭צִיעוֹת כָּל־בִּגְדֹתֶ֑יךָ מִֽן־הֵ֥יכְלֵי שֵׁ֝֗ן מִנִּ֥י שִׂמְּחֽוּךָ׃

*Word for word:* \[are\].myrrh and aloes cassia(s) all clothes your from palaces of.ivory stringed.instrument they have.made.you.glad

*JPS 1917:* Myrrh, and aloes, and cassia are all thy garments; out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made thee glad.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4482.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4482/): 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).