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# מֹרֶךְ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4816

**softness** — 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

softness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4816/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מֹ֫רֶךְ²: weakness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4816/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] weakness (Köii. 1, 98);—Lv 26:36 I will send מ׳ into (ב) your heart (i.e. make you timid, fearful, cf. √ 1 a, רַךְ 2).

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 (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Leviticus 26:36](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.26.36/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.26.36/#tree)

וְהַנִּשְׁאָרִ֣ים בָּכֶ֔ם וְהֵבֵ֤אתִי מֹ֙רֶךְ֙ בִּלְבָבָ֔ם בְּאַרְצֹ֖ת אֹיְבֵיהֶ֑ם וְרָדַ֣ף אֹתָ֗ם ק֚וֹל עָלֶ֣ה נִדָּ֔ף וְנָס֧וּ מְנֻֽסַת־חֶ֛רֶב וְנָפְל֖וּ וְאֵ֥ין רֹדֵֽף׃

*Word for word:* and \[those who\].remain among you and I.will.bring despair in heart their in the.land their.enemies their and it.will.pursue them the.sound of.a.leaf driven.about and they.will.flee a.flight of.a.sword and they.will.fall and there.\[will\].not.\[be\] \[one.who\].pursues

*JPS 1917:* And as for them that are left of you, I will send a faintness into their heart in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a driven leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as one fleeth from the sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4816.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4816/): 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).