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# מֵשָׁא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4852

**Mesha** — 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

Mesha [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4852/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מֵשָׁא: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4852/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. limiting territory of Jokṭanites, Gn 10:30; DlPar 243 identif. with Assyrian Maš (Syro-Arabic desert); \> district Mesene, on Pers. Gulf, Thes 823 (cf. Di); 𝔊 Μασση(ε), whence Di i. מַשָּׂא q.v. (after HalMél. 91 f.)

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 (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (7 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Genesis 10:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.10.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.10.30/#tree)

וַֽיְהִ֥י מוֹשָׁבָ֖ם מִמֵּשָׁ֑א בֹּאֲכָ֥ה סְפָ֖רָה הַ֥ר הַקֶּֽדֶם׃

*Word for word:* and it.was place their.dwelling from Mesha going your towards Sephar the.hill.country of the.east

*JPS 1917:* And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest toward Sephar, unto the mountain of the east.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4852.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4852/): 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).