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# מַעֲרָצָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4637

**awful shock** — 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

awful shock [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4637/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַעֲרָצָה²: n.f. awful shock, crash [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4637/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. awful shock, crash;—Is 10:33, of י׳’s lopping off (tree-)crown (fig.).

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, 2 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: a crash (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 10:33](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.10.33/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.10.33/#tree)

הִנֵּ֤ה הָאָדוֹן֙ יְהוָ֣ה צְבָא֔וֹת מְסָעֵ֥ף פֻּארָ֖ה בְּמַעֲרָצָ֑ה וְרָמֵ֤י הַקּוֹמָה֙ גְּדוּעִ֔ים וְהַגְּבֹהִ֖ים יִשְׁפָּֽלוּ׃

*Word for word:* there! the lord Yahweh of.hosts \[is\].about.to.lop.off bough\[s\] with a.crash and the.exalted.\[ones\] of.(the) height \[will.be\].cut.down and the.tall \[ones\] they.will.become.low

*JPS 1917:* Behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, shall lop the boughs with terror; and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the lofty shall be laid low.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4637.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4637/): 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).