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# מִקְסָם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4738

**divination** — used 2 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

divination [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4738/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִקְסָם²: divination [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4738/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] divination; cstr. מִקְסַם חָלָק Ez 12:24 (‖ חזון שׁוא); מִקְסַם כָּזָב Ez 13:7 (‖ מחזה שׁוא).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 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: divination (2).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 12:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.12.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.12.24/#tree)

כִּ֠י לֹ֣א יִֽהְיֶ֥ה ע֛וֹד כָּל־חֲז֥וֹן שָׁ֖וְא וּמִקְסַ֣ם חָלָ֑ק בְּת֖וֹךְ בֵּ֥ית יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* (dm) not it.will.be again any vision of.worthlessness and divination of.flattery in the.midst of.the.house of.Israel

*JPS 1917:* For there shall be no more any vain vision nor smooth divination within the house of Israel.

[Ezekiel 13:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.13.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.13.7/#tree)

הֲל֤וֹא מַֽחֲזֵה־שָׁוְא֙ חֲזִיתֶ֔ם וּמִקְסַ֥ם כָּזָ֖ב אֲמַרְתֶּ֑ם וְאֹֽמְרִים֙ נְאֻם־יְהוָ֔ה וַאֲנִ֖י לֹ֥א דִבַּֽרְתִּי׃ס

*Word for word:* ? not a.vision of.worthlessness have.you.seen and divination of.falsehood have.you.said? and \[you.were\].saying the.utterance of.Yahweh and I not I.have.spoken

*JPS 1917:* Have ye not seen a vain vision, and have ye not spoken a lying divination, whereas ye say: The LORD saith; albeit I have not spoken?

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4738/): 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).