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# מְעֻטָּה

Biblical Hebrew

**wrap** — 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

wrap [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b0_5e2_5bb_5d8_5b8_5bc_5d4/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

**The whole BDB entry:** Ez 21:20 textual error, v. sub מרט.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech not compared, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, only a cross-reference (3 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 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: \[it is\] wrapped (1).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 21:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.21.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.21.20/#tree)

לְמַ֣עַן ׀ לָמ֣וּג לֵ֗ב וְהַרְבֵּה֙ הַמִּכְשֹׁלִ֔ים עַ֚ל כָּל־שַׁ֣עֲרֵיהֶ֔ם נָתַ֖תִּי אִבְחַת־חָ֑רֶב אָ֛ח עֲשׂוּיָ֥ה לְבָרָ֖ק מְעֻטָּ֥ה לְטָֽבַח׃

*Word for word:* so.as to melt a.heart and \[may.be\].many the stumblings at all gates their I.have.set a.slaughter of.a.sword alas! \[it.is\].made for lightning \[it.is\].wrapped for slaughter

*JPS 1917:* I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, that their heart may melt, and their stumblings be multiplied; ah! it is made glittering, it is sharpened for slaughter.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5de_5b0_5e2_5bb_5d8_5b8_5bc_5d4.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b0_5e2_5bb_5d8_5b8_5bc_5d4/): 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).