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# מֵן

Biblical Hebrew

**portion** — 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

portion [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b5_5df/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מֵן³: portion [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b5_5df/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] portion (Sim Hup al.);—מִנֵּה֑וּ ψ 68:24, but read (הּ—ָ) מְנָתוֹ Ol Dy Bi Che We (v. מְנָת supr.).—ψ 45:9; 150:4 v. i. מֵן supr.

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

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Psalms 68:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.68.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.68.24/#tree)

לְמַ֤עַן ׀ תִּֽמְחַ֥ץ רַגְלְךָ֗ בְּ֫דָ֥ם לְשׁ֥וֹן כְּלָבֶ֑יךָ מֵאֹיְבִ֥ים מִנֵּֽהוּ׃

*Word for word:* so.that it.may.smash foot your in blood the.tongue your.dogs your \[will be\].from.\[the\].enemies portion its

*JPS 1917:* That thy foot may wade through blood, that the tongue of thy dogs may have its portion from thine enemies.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5de_5b5_5df.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b5_5df/): 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).