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# מַעֲמָסָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4614

**load** — 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

load [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4614/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַעֲמָסָה²: n.f. load, burden [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4614/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. load, burden;—אֶבֶן מ׳ Zc 12:3 a stone of burden = heavy stone, hard to lift.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: of burden (1).

## In the verses

[Zechariah 12:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.12.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.12.3/#tree)

וְהָיָ֣ה בַיּוֹם־הַ֠הוּא אָשִׂ֨ים אֶת־יְרוּשָׁלִַ֜ם אֶ֤בֶן מַֽעֲמָסָה֙ לְכָל־הָ֣עַמִּ֔ים כָּל־עֹמְסֶ֖יהָ שָׂר֣וֹט יִשָּׂרֵ֑טוּ וְנֶאֶסְפ֣וּ עָלֶ֔יהָ כֹּ֖ל גּוֹיֵ֥י הָאָֽרֶץ׃

*Word for word:* and it.will.be on the day (the) that I.will.make (et) Jerusalem a.stone of.burden for all the peoples all \[those who\].carry.it severely.(injure) they.will.injure.themselves and they.will.gather on it all the.nations of the.earth

*JPS 1917:* And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will make Jerusalem a stone of burden for all the peoples; all that burden themselves with it shall be sore wounded; and all the nations of the earth shall be gathered together against it.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4614.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4614/): 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).