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# מַעֲנָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4618

**place for task** — 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

place for task [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4618/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַעֲנָה²: n.f. place for task field for ploughing [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4618/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. place for task (?), specif. field for ploughing;—pl. sf. לְמַעֲנוֹתָם ψ 129:3 Kt they have extended their ploughing-grounds (Qr מַעֲנִיתָם); sg. מַעֲנָה only 1 S 14:14, where text corrupt and meaning dub. v. Comm.

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 (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[1 Samuel 14:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.14.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.14.14/#tree)

וַתְּהִ֞י הַמַּכָּ֣ה הָרִאשֹׁנָ֗ה אֲשֶׁ֨ר הִכָּ֧ה יוֹנָתָ֛ן וְנֹשֵׂ֥א כֵלָ֖יו כְּעֶשְׂרִ֣ים אִ֑ישׁ כְּבַחֲצִ֥י מַעֲנָ֖ה צֶ֥מֶד שָׂדֶֽה׃

*Word for word:* and it.was the slaughter (the) first which he.struck.down Jonathan and the.bearer his.armor(s) his about twenty man about in half of.a.furrow an.acre of.a.field

*JPS 1917:* And that first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armour-bearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were half a furrow's length in an acre of land.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4618.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4618/): 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).