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# מִפְלֶצֶת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4656

**horrid thing** — used 4 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

horrid thing [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4656/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִפְלֶ֫צֶת²: n.f. horrid thing [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4656/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. horrid thing (thing to shudder at);—עָֽשְׂתָה מ׳ לַאֲשֵׁרָה 1 K 15:13 (of some abominable object of idolatry, not precisely known), so sf. מִפְלַצְתָּהּ v 13 = 2 Ch 15:16(×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 (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: an abominable image (2); image (2).

## In the verses

[1 Kings 15:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.15.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.15.13/#tree)

וְגַ֣ם ׀ אֶת־מַעֲכָ֣ה אִמּ֗וֹ וַיְסִרֶ֙הָ֙ מִגְּבִירָ֔ה אֲשֶׁר־עָשְׂתָ֥ה מִפְלֶ֖צֶת לָאֲשֵׁרָ֑ה וַיִּכְרֹ֤ת אָסָא֙ אֶת־מִפְלַצְתָּ֔הּ וַיִּשְׂרֹ֖ף בְּנַ֥חַל קִדְרֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* and also (et) Maacah mother his and he removed.her from queen-mother who she.had.made an.abominable.image to.(the) Asherah pole and he.cut.down Asa (et) image her.abominable and he.burned.\[it\] in the.wadi of.Kidron

*JPS 1917:* And also Maacah his mother he removed from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah; and Asa cut down her image, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.

[2 Chronicles 15:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.15.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.15.16/#tree)

וְגַֽם־מַעֲכָ֞ה אֵ֣ם ׀ אָסָ֣א הַמֶּ֗לֶךְ הֱסִירָהּ֙ מִגְּבִירָ֔ה אֲשֶׁר־עָשְׂתָ֥ה לַאֲשֵׁרָ֖ה מִפְלָ֑צֶת וַיִּכְרֹ֤ת אָסָא֙ אֶת־מִפְלַצְתָּ֔הּ וַיָּ֕דֶק וַיִּשְׂרֹ֖ף בְּנַ֥חַל קִדְרֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* and also Maacah the.mother of.Asa the king he removed.her from queen-mother that she.had.made to an.Asherah.pole an.abominable.image and he.cut.down Asa (et) image her.abominable and he.pulverized.\[it\] and he.burned.\[it\] in the.wadi of.Kidron

*JPS 1917:* And also Maacah the mother of Asa the king, he removed her from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah; and Asa cut down her image, and made dust of it, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4656.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4656/): 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).