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# מִסְגֶּרֶת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4526

**border** — used 17 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

border [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4526/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִסְגֶּ֫רֶת: n.f. border, rim. fastness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4526/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. 1. border, rim. 2. fastness;—abs. מ׳ Ex 25:27; 37:14; cstr. מ׳ 25:25; 37:12; sf. מִסְגַּרְתּוֹ 25:25; 37:12; pl. abs. מִסְגְּרוֹת 1 K 7:28 +; sf. מִסְגְּרֹתֶיהָ v 35, 36, etc.;— border, rim (enclosure), of sacred table in tabern. Ex 25:25(×2), 27 = 37:12(×2), 14; of bases of the sea, in temple 1 K 7:28, 31, 32, 35, 36 (cf. Benz), also 2 K 16:17. fastness, וְיַחְרְגוּ מִמּ׳ ψ 18:46 = 2 S 22:46 (v. חרג) and they shall come quaking out of their fastnesses, so Mi 7:17 (יִרְגְּזוּ, like reptiles), all of nations, in awe of י׳.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 13 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: rims (8); rim (4); strongholds (3).

## In the verses

[2 Samuel 22:46](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.22.46/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.22.46/#tree)

בְּנֵ֥י נֵכָ֖ר יִבֹּ֑לוּ וְיַחְגְּר֖וּ מִמִּסְגְּרוֹתָֽם׃

*Word for word:* sons of.foreignness they.withered and they.girded.themselves from strongholds their

*JPS 1917:* The sons of the stranger fade away, and come halting out of their close places.

[Psalms 18:46](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.18.46/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.18.46/#tree)

בְּנֵי־נֵכָ֥ר יִבֹּ֑לוּ וְ֝יַחְרְג֗וּ מִֽמִּסְגְּרֽוֹתֵיהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* sons of.foreignness they.withered and they.came.trembling from strongholds their

*JPS 1917:* The sons of the stranger fade away, and come trembling out of their close places.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4526.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4526/): 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).