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# מִקְשָׁה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4750

**place** — 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

place [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4750/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִקְשָׁה³: n.f. place, field, of cucumbers [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4750/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. place, field, of cucumbers, Is 1:8; so Je 10:5 Gf Gie al. (cf. Baruch 6:70).

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 (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Isaiah 1:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.1.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.1.8/#tree)

וְנוֹתְרָ֥ה בַת־צִיּ֖וֹן כְּסֻכָּ֣ה בְכָ֑רֶם כִּמְלוּנָ֥ה בְמִקְשָׁ֖ה כְּעִ֥יר נְצוּרָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and she.has.been.left the.daughter of.Zion like a.shelter in a.vineyard like a.hut in a.cucumber.field like a.city besieged

*JPS 1917:* And the daughter of Zion is left as a booth in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.

[Jeremiah 10:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.10.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.10.5/#tree)

כְּתֹ֨מֶר מִקְשָׁ֥ה הֵ֙מָּה֙ וְלֹ֣א יְדַבֵּ֔רוּ נָשׂ֥וֹא יִנָּשׂ֖וּא כִּ֣י לֹ֣א יִצְעָ֑דוּ אַל־תִּֽירְא֤וּ מֵהֶם֙ כִּי־לֹ֣א יָרֵ֔עוּ וְגַם־הֵיטֵ֖יב אֵ֥ין אוֹתָֽם׃ס

*Word for word:* \[are\].like a.scarecrow of.a.cucumber.field they and not they.speak actually.(carry) they.are.carried (dm) not they.walk do.not be.afraid from them (dm) not they.do.harm and also doing.good there.\[is\].not them

*JPS 1917:* They are like a pillar in a garden of cucumbers, and speak not; they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them, for they cannot do evil, neither is it in them to do good.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4750/): 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).