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# מַעְצֹור

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4623

**restraint** — 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

restraint [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4623/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַעְצָר: restraint, control [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4623/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] restraint, control;—מ׳ Pr 25:28 a man whose spirit is without control.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 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: control (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 25:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.25.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.25.28/#tree)

עִ֣יר פְּ֭רוּצָה אֵ֣ין חוֹמָ֑ה אִ֝֗ישׁ אֲשֶׁ֤ר אֵ֖ין מַעְצָ֣ר לְרוּחֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* a.city broken.into there.\[is\].not a.wall a.person whom there.\[is\].not control for spirit his

*JPS 1917:* Like a city broken down and without a wall, so is he whose spirit is without restraint.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4623.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4623/): 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).