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# מִשְׁגֶּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4870

**mistake** — 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

mistake [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4870/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִשְׁגֶּה²: n.m. mistake [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4870/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. mistake Gn 43:12 (J).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[was\] a mistake (1).

## In the verses

[Genesis 43:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.43.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.43.12/#tree)

וְכֶ֥סֶף מִשְׁנֶ֖ה קְח֣וּ בְיֶדְכֶ֑ם וְאֶת־הַכֶּ֜סֶף הַמּוּשָׁ֨ב בְּפִ֤י אַמְתְּחֹֽתֵיכֶם֙ תָּשִׁ֣יבוּ בְיֶדְכֶ֔ם אוּלַ֥י מִשְׁגֶּ֖ה הֽוּא׃

*Word for word:* and silver double take in hand your and (et) the silver \[which was\].returned in the.mouth your.sacks your you.will.take.back in hand your perhaps \[was\].a.mistake it

*JPS 1917:* and take double money in your hand; and the money that was returned in the mouth of your sacks carry back in your hand; peradventure it was an oversight;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4870.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4870/): 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).