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# מְרוּצָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4835

**running** — 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

running [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4835/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מְרוּצָה²: n.f. running course [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4835/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. 1. running. 2. course (of life):— running, mode, style, of running, cstr. מְרוּצַת 2 S 18:27, מְרֻצַת v 27. course (of life), sf. מְרוּצָתָם Je 8:6 (Qr; \> Kt pl. מרצותם), 23:10.—ii. מְרוּצָה Je 22:17 v. sub רצץ.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 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 (2 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 22:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.22.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.22.17/#tree)

כִּ֣י אֵ֤ין עֵינֶ֙יךָ֙ וְלִבְּךָ֔ כִּ֖י אִם־עַל־בִּצְעֶ֑ךָ וְעַ֤ל דַּֽם־הַנָּקִי֙ לִשְׁפּ֔וֹךְ וְעַל־הָעֹ֥שֶׁק וְעַל־הַמְּרוּצָ֖ה לַעֲשֽׂוֹת׃ס

*Word for word:* (dm) not eyes your and heart your \[are\].(dm) (if) on gain your.unjust and on the.blood of the.innocent.\[person\] to shed.\[it\] and on (the) oppression and on (the) extortion to do.\[it\]

*JPS 1917:* But thine eyes and thy heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4835.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4835/): 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).