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# מַרְאָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4759

**vision** — used 11 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

vision [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4759/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַרְאָה: n.f. vision [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4759/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. vision, as means of revelation: מ׳ abs. Nu 12:6 (E), 1 S 3:15; Dn 10:16, as acc. cogn. v 7(×2), 8; appar. pl. abs. מַרְאוֹת Ez 43:3, but read מַרְאֵה הָרֶכֶב 𝔊 Co Berthol Siegf Krae, or del. Toy Krae (as altern.); cstr. מַרְאוֹת הַלַּיְלָה Gn 46:2 (E), מַרְאוֹת אֱלֹהִים Ez 1:1; 8:3; 40:2.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: vision (6); visions (4); the visions (1).

## In the verses

[Genesis 46:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.46.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.46.2/#tree)

וַיֹּ֨אמֶר אֱלֹהִ֤ים ׀ לְיִשְׂרָאֵל֙ בְּמַרְאֹ֣ת הַלַּ֔יְלָה וַיֹּ֖אמֶר יַעֲקֹ֣ב ׀ יַעֲקֹ֑ב וַיֹּ֖אמֶר הִנֵּֽנִי׃

*Word for word:* and he.said God to Israel in the.visions of the.night and he.said O.Jacob Jacob and he.said here I.\[am\]

*JPS 1917:* And God spoke unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said: 'Jacob, Jacob.' And he said: 'Here am I.'

[Numbers 12:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.12.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.12.6/#tree)

וַיֹּ֖אמֶר שִׁמְעוּ־נָ֣א דְבָרָ֑י אִם־יִֽהְיֶה֙ נְבִ֣יאֲכֶ֔ם יְהוָ֗ה בַּמַּרְאָה֙ אֵלָ֣יו אֶתְוַדָּ֔ע בַּחֲל֖וֹם אֲדַבֶּר־בּֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and he.said hear please words my if he.is prophet your Yahweh by (the) vision to him I.make.myself.known by a.dream I.speak with him

*JPS 1917:* And He said: 'Hear now My words: if there be a prophet among you, I the LORD do make Myself known unto him in a vision, I do speak with him in a dream.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4759.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4759/): 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).