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# מַקֵּל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4731

**rod** — used 18 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

rod [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4731/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מקֵּל: n.m. rod, staff [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4731/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Zc 11:7 (appar. f. Gn 30:37, where בָּהֶן, but Sam. בָּהֶם) rod, staff (√ dub.; Thes assumes √ מקל sprout; Schwally ZAW xi. 1891, 170 f. from קלל=shake, with ref. to oracle of the lot (cf. קִלְקַל בַּחִצִּים Ez 21:26); Ba ZMG xii. 1887, 616 gives √ קל, and comp. قُلَةٌ stick driven by another, in sport; Frä ZA iii. 52, comp. Ethiopic በቀልት growth, stem, palm-tree (interchange of ב and מ));—מ׳ abs. Nu 22:27; cstr. Je 1:11 + 2 times; מַקַּל Gn 30:37; sf. מַקְלִי 32:11 + 2 times; מַקְלוֹ 1 S 17:40 Ho 4:12; מַקֶּלְכֶם Ex 12:11; pl. abs. מַקְלוֹת Gn 30:37 + 6 times;— branch of tree as rod, stick, used by Jacob in breeding his flocks, Gn 30:37 (מ׳ לִבְנֶה לַח), v 37, 38, 39, 41(×2); of symbolic rod (מ׳ שָׁקֵד almond-rod) in Jerem.’s vision Je 1:11; symbolic rods or staves, with names, used by proph. Zc 11:7, 10, 14; fig. of Moab מ׳ תִּפְאָרָת Je 48:17 (‖ מַטֵּה־עֹז). staff, used in journeying Gn 32:11 Ex 12:11, 1 S 17:40 cf. v 43; carried even when riding Nu 22:27; so also מַקֵּל יָד Ez 39:9 (=riding-stick) according to Hi Da Berthol; מָגֵן, צִנָּה, קֶשֶׁת, חִצִּים, רֹמַח). wand of diviner Ho 4:12.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 16 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 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: staff (6); branches (5); stick (2).

## In the verses

[Genesis 30:39](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.30.39/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.30.39/#tree)

וַיֶּחֱמ֥וּ הַצֹּ֖אן אֶל־הַמַּקְל֑וֹת וַתֵּלַ֣דְןָ הַצֹּ֔אן עֲקֻדִּ֥ים נְקֻדִּ֖ים וּטְלֻאִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and they.were.in.heat the flock to the branches and they.bore the flock striped.\[ones\] speckled.\[ones\] and spotted.\[ones\]

*JPS 1917:* And the flocks conceived at the sight of the rods, and the flocks brought forth streaked, speckled, and spotted.

[Jeremiah 1:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.1.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.1.11/#tree)

וַיְהִ֤י דְבַר־יְהוָה֙ אֵלַ֣י לֵאמֹ֔ר מָה־אַתָּ֥ה רֹאֶ֖ה יִרְמְיָ֑הוּ וָאֹמַ֕ר מַקֵּ֥ל שָׁקֵ֖ד אֲנִ֥י רֹאֶֽה׃

*Word for word:* and it.came the.word of.Yahweh to me (cmp) what? \[are\].you seeing O.Jeremiah and I.said a.branch of.an.almond.tree I \[am\].seeing

*JPS 1917:* Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying: 'Jeremiah, what seest thou?' And I said: 'I see a rod of an almond-tree.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4731.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4731/): 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).