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# מִצְחָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4697

**greave** — 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

greave [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4697/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִצְחָה: n.f. greave(s) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4697/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. greave(s);—only sg. cstr. וּמִצְחַת נְחשֶׁת עַל־רַגְלָיו 1 S 17:6 and greaves of bronze upon his legs; מִצְחֹת Vrss Th We Klo Dr Bu.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 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, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[1 Samuel 17:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.17.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.17.6/#tree)

וּמִצְחַ֥ת נְחֹ֖שֶׁת עַל־רַגְלָ֑יו וְכִיד֥וֹן נְחֹ֖שֶׁת בֵּ֥ין כְּתֵפָֽיו׃

*Word for word:* and leg.armor of.bronze \[was\].on feet his and a.javelin of.bronze \[was\].between shoulders his

*JPS 1917:* And he had greaves of brass upon his legs, and a javelin of brass between his shoulders.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4697.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4697/): 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).