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# מָנוֹחַ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4494

**resting-place** — used 7 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

resting-place [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4494/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מָנוֹחַ²: n.m. resting-place, state condition of rest [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4494/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. resting-place, state, or condition of rest;—abs. מ׳ Gn 8:9 + 4 times; cstr. מְנוֹחַ 1 Ch 6:16; pl. sf. 2 fs. מְנוּחָ֑יְכִי ψ 116:7 (Ges§ 91 l);— resting-place לְכַף רֶגֶל Gn 8:9 (J), cf. Dt 28:65 La 1:3; Is 34:14 (cf. also מְנֻחָה Gn 49:15). rest, repose of soul ψ 116:7 (pl. abstr. vel intens.); condition of rest and security attained by marriage Ru 3:1. with force of inf. (cf. Aramaic inf. c. מ pref.) מִמְּנוֹחַ הָאָרוֹן 1 Ch 6:16 from the coming to rest of the ark.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 3 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a resting place (5); the rest (1); your resting (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 116:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.116.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.116.7/#tree)

שׁוּבִ֣י נַ֭פְשִׁי לִמְנוּחָ֑יְכִי כִּֽי־יְ֝הוָ֗ה גָּמַ֥ל עָלָֽיְכִי׃

*Word for word:* return my.self my to your.resting place(s) (dm) Yahweh he.has.dealt.bountifully towards you

*JPS 1917:* Return, O my soul, unto Thy rest; for the LORD hath dealt bountifully with thee.

[1 Chronicles 6:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.6.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.6.16/#tree)

וְאֵ֗לֶּה אֲשֶׁ֨ר הֶעֱמִ֥יד דָּוִ֛יד עַל־יְדֵי־שִׁ֖יר בֵּ֣ית יְהוָ֑ה מִמְּנ֖וֹחַ הָאָרֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* and these \[are.those\].whom he.appointed David over \[the\].hands of.song the.house of.Yahweh from the.rest of the.ark

*JPS 1917:* And these are they whom David set over the service of song in the house of the LORD, after that the ark had rest.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4494/): 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).