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# מֵעִים

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4578

**from with** — used 32 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

from with [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4578/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מֵעֶה: n.m. pl. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4578/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Is 16:11 only pl. internal organs, inward parts (intestines, bowels), belly (NH id.; Aramaic מְעָא, מַעֲיָא, ܡܥܶܐ, ܡܥܰܝܴ̈ܐ; Arabic مّعَّى / مِعٍى; Ethiopic አማዑት;—on form cf. LagBN156 BaZMG xlii. 1888, 345);—pl. \[מֵעִים\] cstr. מְעֵי ψ 71:6 + 3 times; sf. מֵעַי 2 S 16:11 + 9 times, מֵעָ֑י ψ 22:15; 40:9; מֵעֶיךָ Gn 15:4 + 6 times; מֵעַיִךְ Gn 25:23 Nu 5:22; מֵעָיו 2 S 20:10 + 5 times; מֵעֵיהֶם Ez 7:19;— lit.: וַיִּשְׁפֹּךְ מֵעָיו אַ֫רְצָה 2 S 20:10 and he poured out his inward parts on the ground (through a wound); cf. מַחֲלֵה מ׳ 2 Ch 21:15, 18, יָֽצְאוּ מ׳ v 15, 19. as digestive organs, but without precision, nearly=stomach, belly, Jb 20:14; Ez 3:3 (‖ בֶּטֶן), 7:19 (‖ נֶפֶשׁ; both c. מָלֵא), Nu 5:22; so of fish that swallowed Jonah Jon 2:1, 2. source of procreation: אשׁר יצא מִמּ׳ (said of offspring) Gn 15:4 (JE), 2 S 7:12 (‖ זַרְעֲךָ), 16:11; צֶאֱצָאֵי מ׳ Is 48:19 (‖ id.); מִיצִיאֵי מ׳ 2 Ch 32:21. = womb, שְׁנֵי לְאֻמִּים מִמֵּעַיִךְ יִפָּרֵ֑דוּ Gn 25:23 (J; ‖ בֶּטֶן), cf. Is 49:1 (‖ id.), ψ 71:6 (‖ id.), Ru 1:11. in gen.=inwards, inward part, לִבִּי … נָמֵס בְּתוֹךְ מ׳ ψ 22:15, cf. תּוֹרָֽתְךָ בְּתוֹךְ מ׳ 40:9. fig.=seat of emotions: pity, Is 16:11 (‖ קֶרֶב); of God’s compassion, Je 31:20 (‖ רחם; in both subj. of vb. הָמוּ); הֲמוֹן מֵעֶיךָ Is 63:15 (‖ רַחֲמֶיךָ); distress, Je 4:19(×2) (‖ לֵב), מֵעַי חֳמַרְמָרוּ La 1:20 (‖ לֵב), 2:11 (‖ כָּבֵד liver); מֵעַי רֻתְּחוּ Jb 30:27 (dub., v. Bu); love, מֵעַי הָמוּ עָלָיו Ct 5:4. the external belly, מֵעָיו עֶשֶׁת שֵׁן Ct 5:14.

Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 30 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech differs, 0 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: parts (8); your inward (5); bowels (4).

## In the verses

[Job 30:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.30.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.30.27/#tree)

מֵעַ֖י רֻתְּח֥וּ וְלֹא־דָ֗מּוּ קִדְּמֻ֥נִי יְמֵי־עֹֽנִי׃

*Word for word:* parts my.inward they.have.been.made.to.boil and not they.have.been.still they have.confronted.me days of.affliction

*JPS 1917:* Mine inwards boil, and rest not; days of affliction are come upon me.

[Job 20:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.20.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.20.14/#tree)

לַ֭חְמוֹ בְּמֵעָ֣יו נֶהְפָּ֑ךְ מְרוֹרַ֖ת פְּתָנִ֣ים בְּקִרְבּֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* food his in his.inward parts it.is.changed venom of.cobras \[is\].in his.inward part\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* Yet his food in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4578.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4578/): 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).