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# מִצְהָלֹות

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4684

**neighing** — 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

neighing [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4684/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִצְהָלָה²: n.f. neighing [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4684/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. neighing;—pl. cstr. קוֹל מִצְהֲלוֹת אַבִּירָיו Je 8:16 (‖ נַחְרַת סוּסָיו); sf. מִצְהֲלוֹתַיִךְ 13:27 of idolatrous Judah, under fig. of mare desiring stallion (‖ נִאֻפַיִךְ, זִמַּת זְנוּתֵךְ).

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

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 13:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.13.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.13.27/#tree)

נִֽאֻפַ֤יִךְ וּמִצְהֲלוֹתַ֙יִךְ֙ זִמַּ֣ת זְנוּתֵ֔ךְ עַל־גְּבָעוֹת֙ בַּשָּׂדֶ֔ה רָאִ֖יתִי שִׁקּוּצָ֑יִךְ א֥וֹי לָךְ֙ יְר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם לֹ֣א תִטְהֲרִ֔י אַחֲרֵ֥י מָתַ֖י עֹֽד׃פ

*Word for word:* adulteri(es) your and neighings your the.wickedness your.prostitution your on hills in the field I.have.seen things your.detestable woe! to you O.Jerusalem not you.are.clean after when? yet

*JPS 1917:* Thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy harlotry, on the hills in the field have I seen thy detestable acts. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! thou wilt not be made clean! When shall it ever be?

[Jeremiah 8:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.8.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.8.16/#tree)

מִדָּ֤ן נִשְׁמַע֙ נַחְרַ֣ת סוּסָ֗יו מִקּוֹל֙ מִצְהֲל֣וֹת אַבִּירָ֔יו רָעֲשָׁ֖ה כָּל־הָאָ֑רֶץ וַיָּב֗וֹאוּ וַיֹּֽאכְלוּ֙ אֶ֣רֶץ וּמְלוֹאָ֔הּ עִ֖יר וְיֹ֥שְׁבֵי בָֽהּ׃ס

*Word for word:* from Dan it.has.been.heard the.snorting his.horses his from the.sound of.the.neighings of his.mighty.\[horses\] it.has.shaken all the land and they.have.come and they.have.consumed \[the\].land and what fills.it \[the\].city and the.inhabitants in it

*JPS 1917:* The snorting of his horses is heard from Dan; at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones the whole land trembleth; for they are come, and have devoured the land and all that is in it, the city and those that dwell therein.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4684.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4684/): 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).