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# מְרוֹחַ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4790

**rub** — 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

rub [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4790/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] dub., only cstr. מְרוֹחַ אָ֑שֶׁךְ Lv 21:20; √ either מָרַח rub=a rubbing away of the testicle; or רָוַח be roomy, enlarged=enlargement (read then מֶרְוַח); v. further Di.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 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, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a \[man\] crushed (1).

## In the verses

[Leviticus 21:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.21.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.21.20/#tree)

אֽוֹ־גִבֵּ֣ן אוֹ־דַ֔ק א֖וֹ תְּבַלֻּ֣ל בְּעֵינ֑וֹ א֤וֹ גָרָב֙ א֣וֹ יַלֶּ֔פֶת א֖וֹ מְר֥וֹחַ אָֽשֶׁךְ׃

*Word for word:* or a.\[man\].hunchbacked or a.\[man\].thin or a.defect in eye his or a.festering.rash or scab\[s\] or a.\[man\].crushed of.testicle

*JPS 1917:* or crook-backed, or a dwarf, or that hath his eye overspread, or is scabbed, or scurvy, or hath his stones crushed;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4790.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4790/): 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).