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# מַצָּע

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4702

**couch** — 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

couch [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4702/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַצָּע: n.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4702/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. couch, bed; קָצַר הַמּ׳ מֵהִשְׂתָּרֵעַ Is 28:20 the bed is too short for one to stretch oneself (מַסֵּכָה coverlet in ‖ cl.)

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 (2 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: bed (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 28:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.28.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.28.20/#tree)

כִּֽי־קָצַ֥ר הַמַּצָּ֖ע מֵֽהִשְׂתָּרֵ֑עַ וְהַמַּסֵּכָ֥ה צָ֖רָה כְּהִתְכַּנֵּֽס׃

*Word for word:* (dm) it.is.\[too\].short the bed for stretching.oneself and the.woven stuff it.is.narrow just as.wraps.oneself.up

*JPS 1917:* For the bed is too short for a man to stretch himself; and the covering too narrow when he gathereth himself up.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4702.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4702/): 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).