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# מָשָׁה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4871

**draw** — used 3 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

draw [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4871/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מָשָׁה: vb. draw Qal [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4871/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. draw (Arabic مَسَى cleanse uterus of camel, Aramaic ܡܫܳܐ clean, stroke, the face, etc.; מְשָׁא (Talm.) wash the hands; Zinj. \[י\]משׁי perhaps wash oneself, DHMSendsch. 60);— Pf. sf. מִן־הַמַּיִם מְשִׁיתִהוּ Ex 2:10 out of the water I drew him (used to explain מֹשֶׁה, but v. this infr.) Impf. sf. = Qal, fig. יַמְשֵׁנִי מִמַּיִם רַבִּים 2 S 22:17 = ψ 18:17 (subj. י׳).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 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, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: he (2); I (1).

## In the verses

[2 Samuel 22:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.22.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.22.17/#tree)

יִשְׁלַ֥ח מִמָּר֖וֹם יִקָּחֵ֑נִי יַֽמְשֵׁ֖נִי מִמַּ֥יִם רַבִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* he.stretched.out from a.high.place he took.hold.of.me he drew.me from waters many

*JPS 1917:* He sent from on high, He took me; He drew me out of many waters;

[Psalms 18:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.18.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.18.17/#tree)

יִשְׁלַ֣ח מִ֭מָּרוֹם יִקָּחֵ֑נִי יַֽ֝מְשֵׁ֗נִי מִמַּ֥יִם רַבִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* he.stretched.out from a.high.place he took.hold.of.me he drew.me from waters many

*JPS 1917:* He sent from on high, He took me; He drew me out of many waters.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4871.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4871/): 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).