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# מִרְיָם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4813

**Miriam** — used 15 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

Miriam [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4813/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִרְיָם: n.pr.f. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4813/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.f. et m. f. sister of Aaron Ex 15:20 (E), and of Moses and Aaron Nu 26:59 (P), 1 Ch 5:29; named also Ex 15:21 (E), Nu 12:1, 4, 5, 10(×2), 15(×2); 20:1 (all JE), Dt 24:9 Mi 6:4. 𝔊 Μαριαμ. m. (prob.) a Judahite 1 Ch 4:17. 𝔊 τὸν Μαιων, 𝔊L Μωεωρ.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 13 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Miriam (15).

## In the verses

[Deuteronomy 24:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.24.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.24.9/#tree)

זָכ֕וֹר אֵ֧ת אֲשֶׁר־עָשָׂ֛ה יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ לְמִרְיָ֑ם בַּדֶּ֖רֶךְ בְּצֵאתְכֶ֥ם מִמִּצְרָֽיִם׃ס

*Word for word:* remember (et) \[that\].which he.did Yahweh God your to Miriam on the way when you came.out from Egypt

*JPS 1917:* Remember what the LORD thy God did unto Miriam, by the way as ye came forth out of Egypt.

[1 Chronicles 5:29](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.5.29/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.5.29/#tree)

וּבְנֵ֣י עַמְרָ֔ם אַהֲרֹ֥ן וּמֹשֶׁ֖ה וּמִרְיָ֑םס וּבְנֵ֣י אַהֲרֹ֔ן נָדָב֙ וַאֲבִיה֔וּא אֶלְעָזָ֖ר וְאִיתָמָֽר׃ס

*Word for word:* and the.children of.Amram \[were\].Aaron and Moses and Miriam and the.sons of.Aaron \[were\].Nadab and Abihu Eleazar and Ithamar

*JPS 1917:* And the children of Amram: Aaron, and Moses, and Miriam. And the sons of Aaron: Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4813.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4813/): 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).