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# מִסְפּוֹא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4554

**fodder** — used 5 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

fodder [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4554/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִסְפּוֹא²: n.m. fodder [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4554/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Gn 24:25 fodder;—always abs. מ׳, Gn 24:25, elsewhere obj. of נָתַן v 32; 43:24 (all J) 42:27 (E) Ju 19:19.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 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, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: fodder (5).

## In the verses

[Genesis 24:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.24.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.24.25/#tree)

וַתֹּ֣אמֶר אֵלָ֔יו גַּם־תֶּ֥בֶן גַּם־מִסְפּ֖וֹא רַ֣ב עִמָּ֑נוּ גַּם־מָק֖וֹם לָלֽוּן׃

*Word for word:* and she.said to him both straw as.well.as fodder much \[is\].with us also room to stay.the.night

*JPS 1917:* She said moreover unto him: 'We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in.'

[Genesis 43:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.43.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.43.24/#tree)

וַיָּבֵ֥א הָאִ֛ישׁ אֶת־הָאֲנָשִׁ֖ים בֵּ֣יתָה יוֹסֵ֑ף וַיִּתֶּן־מַ֙יִם֙ וַיִּרְחֲצ֣וּ רַגְלֵיהֶ֔ם וַיִּתֵּ֥ן מִסְפּ֖וֹא לַחֲמֹֽרֵיהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* and he.brought the man (et) the men the.house to of.Joseph and he.gave water and they.washed feet their and he.gave fodder to donkeys their

*JPS 1917:* And the man brought the men into Joseph's house, and gave them water, and they washed their feet; and he gave their asses provender.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4554.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4554/): 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).