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# מָעָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4579

**grain** — 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

grain [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4579/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מָעָה: n.f. grain [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4579/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. grain (of sand), si vera l. (NH מָעָה, seed (of melon, etc.), coin, Aramaic ܡܳܥܳܐ מָעָא coin);—only fpl. sf.: וַיְהִי כַחוֹל זַרְעֶ֔ךָ וְצֶאֱצָאֵי מֵעֶיךָ כִּמְעֹתָיו Is 48:19 and thy seed had been like the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the grains thereof, cf. 𝔙 𝔗 De Di Du al. \> pl. of \[מֵעֶה\] the entrails of it (i.e. the sea) AE Ges Hi CheComm..—𝔊 ὡς ὁ χοῦς τῆς γῆς, whence Gr כְּעפרותיו.

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, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Isaiah 48:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.48.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.48.19/#tree)

וַיְהִ֤י כַחוֹל֙ זַרְעֶ֔ךָ וְצֶאֱצָאֵ֥י מֵעֶ֖יךָ כִּמְעֹתָ֑יו לֹֽא־יִכָּרֵ֧ת וְֽלֹא־יִשָּׁמֵ֛ד שְׁמ֖וֹ מִלְּפָנָֽי׃

*Word for word:* and it.was like the sand offspring your and the.descendants your.inward.parts your like grains its not it.will.be.cut.off and not it.will.be.destroyed name its from before face me

*JPS 1917:* Thy seed also would be as the sand, and the offspring of thy body like the grains thereof; his name would not be cut off nor destroyed from before Me.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4579.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4579/): 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).