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# מָרָא

Biblical Hebrew

**beat** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

beat [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b8_5e8_5b8_5d0/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מָרָא: vb. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b8_5e8_5b8_5d0/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. only Impf. 3 fs.: meaning dub., perhaps beat the air, or flap the wings, cf. Di De (and Wetzst in De), Bu Du (cf. Arabic مَرَى whip, urge on a horse?);—תַּמְרִ֑יא תִּשְׂחַק לַסּוּס וּלְרֹכְבֽוֹ׃ Jb 39:18 she (the ostrich) flaps away, she laughs at the horse and his rider.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: it flaps (1).

## In the verses

[Job 39:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.39.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.39.18/#tree)

כָּ֭עֵת בַּמָּר֣וֹם תַּמְרִ֑יא תִּֽשְׂחַ֥ק לַ֝סּ֗וּס וּלְרֹֽכְבֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* about the time on the height it.flaps it.laughs to the horse and to rider its

*JPS 1917:* When the time cometh, she raiseth her wings on high, and scorneth the horse and his rider.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5de_5b8_5e8_5b8_5d0.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b8_5e8_5b8_5d0/): 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).