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# מַפֵּלָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4654

**fallen** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

fallen [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4654/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַפֵּלָה: n.f. id. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4654/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. id.;—abs. מ׳ of city Is 23:13; 25:2.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 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: a ruin (1); ruin (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 25:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.25.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.25.2/#tree)

כִּ֣י שַׂ֤מְתָּ מֵעִיר֙ לַגָּ֔ל קִרְיָ֥ה בְצוּרָ֖ה לְמַפֵּלָ֑ה אַרְמ֤וֹן זָרִים֙ מֵעִ֔יר לְעוֹלָ֖ם לֹ֥א יִבָּנֶֽה׃

*Word for word:* (dm) you.have.made from a.city into (the) heap a.town fortified into a.ruin a.fortress of.strangers from a.city forever of.perpetuity not it.will.be.rebuilt

*JPS 1917:* For Thou hast made of a city a heap, of a fortified city a ruin; a castle of strangers to be no city, it shall never be built.

[Isaiah 23:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.23.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.23.13/#tree)

הֵ֣ן ׀ אֶ֣רֶץ כַּשְׂדִּ֗ים זֶ֤ה הָעָם֙ לֹ֣א הָיָ֔ה אַשּׁ֖וּר יְסָדָ֣הּ לְצִיִּ֑ים הֵקִ֣ימוּ בַחוּנָ֗יו עֹרְרוּ֙ אַרְמְנוֹתֶ֔יהָ שָׂמָ֖הּ לְמַפֵּלָֽה׃

*Word for word:* there! the.land of.\[the\].Chaldeans this \[is\].the people \[which\].not it.was Assyria it allocated.it to desert-dwellers they.raised.up siege-towers its they.laid.bare palaces its it made.it (into).a ruin

*JPS 1917:* Behold, the land of the Chaldeans — this is the people that was not, when Asshur founded it for shipmen — they set up their towers, they overthrew the palaces thereof; it is made a ruin.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4654/): 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).