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# מַעְגָּל

Biblical Hebrew

**entrenchment** — used 13 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

entrenchment [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b7_5e2_5b0_5d2_5b8_5bc_5dc/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַעְגָּל²: n.m. entrenchment track [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b7_5e2_5b0_5d2_5b8_5bc_5dc/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. ψ 65:12 1. entrenchment; 2. track;—abs. מ׳ 1 S 26:5 +, c. ה loc. הַמַּעְגָּ֫לָה 17:20; cstr. מַעְגַּל Pr 4:26 +; pl. cstr. מַעְגְּלֵי ψ 23:3 Pr 4:11; sf. מַעְגָּלֶיךָ ψ 65:12, elsewhere מַעְגְּלוֹתֶיךָ 17:5, מַעְגְּלֹתָיו Pr 5:21, -תֶיהָ 2:12; 5:6, -תָם 2:15 Is 59:8;— circumvallation, entrenchment 1 S 17:20; 26:5, 7. track (proposes wagon-track), only fig.: in fig. of snares of wicked ψ 140:6. = course of action, or life, מ׳ רַגְלֶ֑ךָ Pr 4:26, מ׳ 5:21 (‖ דַּרְכֵי־אִישׁ); specif. good, right, מ׳ צֶדֶק ψ 23:3, מ׳ ישֶׁר Pr 4:11, מ׳ טוֹב 2:9, מ׳ צַדִּיק Is 26:7; bad sense Pr 2:15, 18; 5:6 Is 59:8; tracks of י׳ are those approved by him ψ 17:5; or those traversed by him, מַעְגָּלֶיךָ יִרְעֲפוּן דָּ֑שֶׁן 65:12 fig. of richly-laden cart dropping its contents in its track.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 13 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: tracks (9); \[the\] track (1); of a track (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 2:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.2.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.2.15/#tree)

אֲשֶׁ֣ר אָרְחֹתֵיהֶ֣ם עִקְּשִׁ֑ים וּ֝נְלוֹזִ֗ים בְּמַעְגְּלוֹתָֽם׃

*Word for word:* who paths their \[are\].twisted and \[they.are\].crooked in tracks their

*JPS 1917:* Who are crooked in their ways, and perverse in their paths;

[Proverbs 4:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.4.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.4.26/#tree)

פַּ֭לֵּס מַעְגַּ֣ל רַגְלֶ֑ךָ וְֽכָל־דְּרָכֶ֥יךָ יִכֹּֽנוּ׃

*Word for word:* make.level the.track your.foot your and all ways your let.them.be.steadfast

*JPS 1917:* Make plain the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5de_5b7_5e2_5b0_5d2_5b8_5bc_5dc.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b7_5e2_5b0_5d2_5b8_5bc_5dc/): 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).