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# מִצְעָר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4706

**a small thing** — 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

a small thing [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4706/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִצְעָר²: n.m. small thing [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4706/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. a small thing (‖ מִזְעָר);— abs. מ׳ a small thing, of city Gn 19:20(×2) (J); of Job’s fortunes, רֵאשִׁיתְךָ מ׳ Jb 8:7 (opp. יִשְׂגֶּה מְאֹד); cstr. מִצְעַר אֲנָשִׁים 2 Ch 24:24 a few men; of time לַמּ׳ Is 63:18 for the \[a\] little while.—ψ 42:7 v. ii. מ׳.

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 (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 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: Mizar (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 42:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.42.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.42.7/#tree)

אֱ‍ֽלֹהַ֗י עָלַי֮ נַפְשִׁ֪י תִשְׁתּ֫וֹחָ֥ח עַל־כֵּ֗ן אֶ֭זְכָּרְךָ מֵאֶ֣רֶץ יַרְדֵּ֑ן וְ֝חֶרְמוֹנִ֗ים מֵהַ֥ר מִצְעָֽר׃

*Word for word:* my.God my on me being my it.is.bowed.down therefore I will.remember.you from the.land of.\[the\].Jordan and Hermon(s) from mount Mizar

*JPS 1917:* O my God, my soul is cast down within me; therefore do I remember Thee from the land of Jordan, and the Hermons, from the hill Mizar.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4706/): 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).