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# מִקְוָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4724

**reservoir** — 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

reservoir [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4724/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִקְוָה: n.f. reservoir [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4724/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. reservoir;—Is 22:11.

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 (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Isaiah 22:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.22.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.22.11/#tree)

וּמִקְוָ֣ה ׀ עֲשִׂיתֶ֗ם בֵּ֚ין הַחֹ֣מֹתַ֔יִם לְמֵ֖י הַבְּרֵכָ֣ה הַיְשָׁנָ֑ה וְלֹ֤א הִבַּטְתֶּם֙ אֶל־עֹשֶׂ֔יהָ וְיֹצְרָ֥הּ מֵֽרָח֖וֹק לֹ֥א רְאִיתֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* and a.reservoir you.made between the.two walls for the.water of the.pool (the) old and not you.looked to the.\[one who\].made.it and the.\[one who\].planned.it from distant.\[time\] not you.considered

*JPS 1917:* ye made also a basin between the two walls for the water of the old pool — but ye looked not unto Him that had done this, neither had ye respect unto Him that fashioned it long ago.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4724/): 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).