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# מָסֹרֶת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4562

**bond of the covenant** — 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

bond of the covenant [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4562/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מָסֹ֫רֶת: n.f. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4562/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. cstr. מ׳ הַבְּרִית bond of the covenant Ez 20:37 (= מַאֲסֹרֶת; text dub. cf. LagGN 1882, 168 f. M 61; Co reads מוסר, i.e. מוּסָר v. sub יסר; so 𝔖).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 20:37](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.20.37/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.20.37/#tree)

וְהַעֲבַרְתִּ֥י אֶתְכֶ֖ם תַּ֣חַת הַשָּׁ֑בֶט וְהֵבֵאתִ֥י אֶתְכֶ֖ם בְּמָסֹ֥רֶת הַבְּרִֽית׃

*Word for word:* and I.will.make.pass you under the rod and I.will.bring you in the.bond of the.covenant

*JPS 1917:* And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant;

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4562/): 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).