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# מַקֶּבֶת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4718

**hole** — 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

hole [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4718/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַקֶּ֫בֶת³: n.f. hole, excavation [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4718/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. hole, excavation;—only cstr. מ׳ בּוֹר Is 51:1 (fig.), excavation of a pit, = quarry (‖ צוּר).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: \[the\] excavation (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 51:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.51.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.51.1/#tree)

שִׁמְע֥וּ אֵלַ֛י רֹ֥דְפֵי צֶ֖דֶק מְבַקְשֵׁ֣י יְהוָ֑ה הַבִּ֙יטוּ֙ אֶל־צ֣וּר חֻצַּבְתֶּ֔ם וְאֶל־מַקֶּ֥בֶת בּ֖וֹר נֻקַּרְתֶּֽם׃

*Word for word:* listen to me O.\[you.who\].pursue (of).righteousness \[you.who\].seek (of).Yahweh look to \[the\].rock \[which\].you.were.dug and to \[the\].excavation of.\[the\].pit \[which\].you.were.dug.out

*JPS 1917:* Hearken to Me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD; look unto the rock whence ye were hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye were digged.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4718.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4718/): 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).