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# מִקְלָט

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4733

**refuge** — used 20 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

refuge [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4733/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִקְלָט²: refuge, asylum [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4733/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] refuge, asylum (P Ch);—עָרֵי מ׳ asylum-cities Nu 35:11, 13, 14, עָרֵי הַמּ׳ Nu 35:6; Jos 20:2, so 1 Ch 6:42, 52 (but read עִיר הַמּ׳, according to ‖ Jos 21:13, 21, so Be Kau Kit), לְמ׳ (after הָיָה) Nu 35:12, 15; Jos 20:3; cstr. in phr. עִיר מִקְלַט הָרֹצֵחַ Jos 21:13, 21, 27, 32, 38 (Gi; v 36 van d. H. Baer); sf. of refugee, עִיר מִקְלָטוֹ Nu 35:25, 26, 27, 28, 32.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 20 of its verses cited, 1 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, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: refuge (7); his refuge (5); of (the) refuge (5).

## In the verses

[Numbers 35:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.35.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.35.13/#tree)

וְהֶעָרִ֖ים אֲשֶׁ֣ר תִּתֵּ֑נוּ שֵׁשׁ־עָרֵ֥י מִקְלָ֖ט תִּהְיֶ֥ינָה לָכֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* and the cities which you.will.give six cities of.refuge they.will.be for you

*JPS 1917:* And as to the cities which ye shall give, there shall be for you six cities of refuge.

[Numbers 35:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.35.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.35.26/#tree)

וְאִם־יָצֹ֥א יֵצֵ֖א הָרֹצֵ֑חַ אֶת־גְּבוּל֙ עִ֣יר מִקְלָט֔וֹ אֲשֶׁ֥ר יָנ֖וּס שָֽׁמָּה׃

*Word for word:* and if ever.(go.out) he.will.go.out the killer (et) the.border of.the.city his.refuge his where he.will.flee to (to)

*JPS 1917:* But if the manslayer shall at any time go beyond the border of his city of refuge, whither he fleeth;

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4733/): 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).