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# מַסָּח

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4535

**for plucking away** — 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

for plucking away [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4535/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

**The whole BDB entry:** dub. word., only in וּשְׁמַרְתֶּם אֶת־מִשְׁמֶרֶת הַבַּיִת מַסָּ֑ח 2 K 11:6; Thes al. sub √ נסח=for plucking away, i.e. repulse, defense, but very uncertain; prob. textual error; om. 𝔊B We Stap. 354; 𝔊L Μεσσαε.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 2 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: by turns (1).

## In the verses

[2 Kings 11:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.11.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.11.6/#tree)

וְהַשְּׁלִשִׁית֙ בְּשַׁ֣עַר ס֔וּר וְהַשְּׁלִשִׁ֥ית בַּשַּׁ֖עַר אַחַ֣ר הָרָצִ֑ים וּשְׁמַרְתֶּ֛ם אֶת־מִשְׁמֶ֥רֶת הַבַּ֖יִת מַסָּֽח׃

*Word for word:* and the.third \[part\] at the.gate of.Sur and the.third \[part\] at the gate behind the runners and you.will.keep (et) the.watch of the.house by.turns

*JPS 1917:* now another third part was at the gate Sur, and another third part at the gate behind the guard — shall keep the watch of the house, and be a barrier.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4535.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4535/): 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).