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# מַעֲדַנֹּת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4575

**bonds** — used 2 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

bonds [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4575/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַעֲדַנּוֹת²: n.f.pl. bonds, bands [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4575/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f.pl. bonds, bands; so appar. הַתְקַשֵּׁר מ׳ כִּימַה Jb 38:31 (by metath. or error from √ ענד, v. Di Bu).—1 S 15:32 v. מ׳ p. 588 supr.

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

## In the verses

[Job 38:31](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.38.31/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.38.31/#tree)

הַֽ֭תְקַשֵּׁר מַעֲדַנּ֣וֹת כִּימָ֑ה אֽוֹ־מֹשְׁכ֖וֹת כְּסִ֣יל תְּפַתֵּֽחַ׃

*Word for word:* will you.bind.on? the.bonds of.Pleiades or? the.cords of.Orion will.you.loosen

*JPS 1917:* Canst thou bind the chains of the Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?

[1 Samuel 15:32](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.15.32/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.15.32/#tree)

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר שְׁמוּאֵ֗ל הַגִּ֤ישׁוּ אֵלַי֙ אֶת־אֲגַג֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ עֲמָלֵ֔ק וַיֵּ֣לֶךְ אֵלָ֔יו אֲגַ֖ג מַעֲדַנֹּ֑ת וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֲגָ֔ג אָכֵ֖ן סָ֥ר מַר־הַמָּֽוֶת׃ס

*Word for word:* and he.said Samuel bring.near to me (et) Agag the.king of.Amalek and he.came to him Agag bonds and he.said Agag truly it.has.departed the.bitterness of.(the) death

*JPS 1917:* Then said Samuel: 'Bring ye hither to me Agag the king of the Amalekites.' And Agag came unto him in chains. And Agag said: 'Surely the bitterness of death is at hand.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4575.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4575/): 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).