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# מֹעַל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4607

**lifting** — 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

lifting [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4607/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מֹ֫עַל²: lifting [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4607/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] lifting;—בְּמֹעַל יְדֵיהֶם Ne 8:6.

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 (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Nehemiah 8:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.8.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.8.6/#tree)

וַיְבָ֣רֶךְ עֶזְרָ֔א אֶת־יְהוָ֥ה הָאֱלֹהִ֖ים הַגָּד֑וֹל וַיַּֽעֲנ֨וּ כָל־הָעָ֜ם אָמֵ֤ן ׀ אָמֵן֙ בְּמֹ֣עַל יְדֵיהֶ֔ם וַיִּקְּד֧וּ וַיִּשְׁתַּחֲוֻּ֛ לַיהוָ֖ה אַפַּ֥יִם אָֽרְצָה׃

*Word for word:* and he.blessed Ezra (et) Yahweh (the) God (the) great and they.answered all the people amen amen in the.raising their.hands their and they.bowed.low and they.bowed.down to Yahweh face ground to.\[the\]

*JPS 1917:* And Ezra blessed the LORD, the great God. And all the people answered: 'Amen, Amen', with the lifting up of their hands; and they bowed their heads, and fell down before the LORD with their faces to the ground.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4607.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4607/): 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).