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# מַפָּלָה

Biblical Hebrew

**ruin** — 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

ruin [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b7_5e4_5b8_5bc_5dc_5b8_5d4/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַפָּלָה: n.f. ruin [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b7_5e4_5b8_5bc_5dc_5b8_5d4/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. a ruin;—abs. מ׳ of city Is 17:1.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Isaiah 17:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.17.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.17.1/#tree)

מַשָּׂ֖א דַּמָּ֑שֶׂק הִנֵּ֤ה דַמֶּ֙שֶׂק֙ מוּסָ֣ר מֵעִ֔יר וְהָיְתָ֖ה מְעִ֥י מַפָּלָֽה׃

*Word for word:* the.oracle of.Damascus there! Damascus \[is\].about.to.be.removed from a.city and it.will.be a.ruin of.a.ruin

*JPS 1917:* The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b7_5e4_5b8_5bc_5dc_5b8_5d4/): 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).