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# מַסְתֵּר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4564

**hiding** — 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

hiding [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4564/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַסְתֵּר: hiding, act of hiding [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4564/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] hiding, act of hiding;—cstr. וּכְמַסְתֵּר פָּנִים מִמֶּנּוּ Is 53:3 and like a hiding of face from him i.e. like one before whom the face is hidden (e.g. a leper, cf. CheHpt).

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 (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Isaiah 53:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.53.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.53.3/#tree)

נִבְזֶה֙ וַחֲדַ֣ל אִישִׁ֔ים אִ֥ישׁ מַכְאֹב֖וֹת וִיד֣וּעַ חֹ֑לִי וּכְמַסְתֵּ֤ר פָּנִים֙ מִמֶּ֔נּוּ נִבְזֶ֖ה וְלֹ֥א חֲשַׁבְנֻֽהוּ׃

*Word for word:* \[he.was\].despised and rejected of.people a.man of.pains and.\[one\] acquainted of.sickness and like a.hiding of.face from him \[he.was\].despised and not we valued.him

*JPS 1917:* He was despised, and forsaken of men, a man of pains, and acquainted with disease, and as one from whom men hide their face: he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4564.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4564/): 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).