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# מֹף

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4644

**Memphis. Compare** — 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

Memphis. Compare [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4644/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מֹף: n.pr.loc. Memphis [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4644/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. Memphis (Egyptian Mr-nfr, i.e. Mĕnnūfĕr, Mĕnnū́fĕ, SteindorffBAS i. 594 f.; Assyrian Mêmpi, Mimpi, SchrCOT Is 19, 13 DlPar 314; cf. ErmanÆgypten 48, 243 EbCicerone i. 114 f.; 𝔊 (and Gk) Μεμφις, on coins Μενφι(ς) Steind.l.c.);—מ׳ Ho 9:6=נֹף Is 19:13 Je 2:16; 44:1; 46:14, 19 Ez 30:13, and וְנֹף צָרֵי יוֹמָם v 16 (without clear meaning, prob. textual error Siegfrin Kau; 𝔊 (appar.) וְנָפֹצוּ מֵימֵיהֶם and their waters shall be dispersed (cf. Na 3:8); Co ונפרצו חומותיה and its walls shall be torn down); נֹף also v 15 (for MT נא) 𝔊 Co.

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

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Hosea 9:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.9.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.9.6/#tree)

כִּֽי־הִנֵּ֤ה הָֽלְכוּ֙ מִשֹּׁ֔ד מִצְרַ֥יִם תְּקַבְּצֵ֖ם מֹ֣ף תְּקַבְּרֵ֑ם מַחְמַ֣ד לְכַסְפָּ֗ם קִמּוֹשׂ֙ יִֽירָשֵׁ֔ם ח֖וֹחַ בְּאָהֳלֵיהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* (dm) there! they.have.gone from.\[the\] devastation Egypt it will.gather.them Memphis it will.bury.them desirable.thing\[s\] of silver their nettle\[s\] it will.take.possession.of.them thornbush\[es\] \[will be\] in.their.tents

*JPS 1917:* For, lo, they are gone away from destruction, yet Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them; their precious treasures of silver, nettles shall possess them, thorns shall be in their tents.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4644.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4644/): 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).