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# מְסוּכָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4534

**hedge** — 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

hedge [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4534/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מְסוּכָה²: n.f. hedge [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4534/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. hedge (‖ form of מְשֻׂכָה q.v. sub שׂוך);—only in fig. יָשָׁר מִמְּסוּכָה Mi 7:4, read יְשָׁרָם מְס׳ (‖ טוֹבָם כְּחֵדֶק), their most upright one is a hedge (an obstruction).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Micah 7:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.7.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.7.4/#tree)

טוֹבָ֣ם כְּחֵ֔דֶק יָשָׁ֖ר מִמְּסוּכָ֑ה י֤וֹם מְצַפֶּ֙יךָ֙ פְּקֻדָּתְךָ֣ בָ֔אָה עַתָּ֥ה תִהְיֶ֖ה מְבוּכָתָֽם׃

*Word for word:* their.good person \[is\].like a.thorn-bush an.upright.\[person\] more than.a.thorn.hedge the.day of your.watchmen punishment your it.has.come now it.will.be confusion their

*JPS 1917:* The best of them is as a brier; the most upright is worse than a thorn hedge; the day of thy watchmen, even thy visitation, is come; now shall be their perplexity.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4534/): 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).