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# מָרַץ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4834

**be sick** — used 4 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

be sick [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4834/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מָרַץ: vb. be sick [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4834/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. be sick, only in der. species (Assyrian ii. marâṣu DlHWB 426; Arabic مَرِضَ; Sab. מרץֿ sick person, sickness, Mordt ZMG 1876, 32; Aramaic vb. ܡܪܰܥ, מְרַע);— Pf. 3 pl. נִמְרְצוּ Jb 6:25 (but v. infr.); Pt. נִמְרָץ Mi 2:10; f. נִמְרֶ֫צֶת 1 K 2:8;—חֶבֶל נִמְרָץ Mi 2:10 a sore, grievous destruction (lit. made sick, cf. מַכָּה נַחְלָה Je 14:17); קְלָלָה נִמְרֶצֶת 1 K 2:8 a grievous curse.—In Jb 6:25 this meaning unsuit., Bu are stong, effective \[cf. Assyrian i. marâṣu, be difficult, inaccessible DlHWB 425 f.; always of something repelling\]. More prob. נמרצו = נמלצו be sweet (cf. ψ 119:103) or read נמלצו (q.v.), Che JQ July, 1897 Du Impf. sf. מַה־יַּמְרִיצְךָ Jb 16:3 what sickens thee (what disturbs, vexes thee) that thou answerest?

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 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: \[will be\] grievous (1); grievous (1); is (1).

## In the verses

[Job 6:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.6.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.6.25/#tree)

מַה־נִּמְרְצ֥וּ אִמְרֵי־יֹ֑שֶׁר וּמַה־יּוֹכִ֖יחַ הוֹכֵ֣חַ מִכֶּֽם׃

*Word for word:* how! they.are.painful words of.uprightness and what? does.it.prove a.proof from you

*JPS 1917:* How forcible are words of uprightness! But what doth your arguing argue?

[Job 16:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.16.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.16.3/#tree)

הֲקֵ֥ץ לְדִבְרֵי־ר֑וּחַ א֥וֹ מַה־יַּ֝מְרִֽיצְךָ֗ כִּ֣י תַעֲנֶֽה׃

*Word for word:* \[does\].an end? \[belong\].to words of.wind or what? is it.making.you.sick (cmp) you.will.answer

*JPS 1917:* Shall windy words have an end? Or what provoketh thee that thou answerest?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4834.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4834/): 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).