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# מִשְׁחַת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4893

**disfigurement** — used 2 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

disfigurement [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4893/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִשְׁחַת: disfigurement [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4893/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] disfigurement of face Is 52:14.

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 (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Isaiah 52:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.52.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.52.14/#tree)

כַּאֲשֶׁ֨ר שָׁמְמ֤וּ עָלֶ֙יךָ֙ רַבִּ֔ים כֵּן־מִשְׁחַ֥ת מֵאִ֖ישׁ מַרְאֵ֑הוּ וְתֹאֲר֖וֹ מִבְּנֵ֥י אָדָֽם׃

*Word for word:* just as they.were.appalled on you many.\[people\] so \[was\].a.disfigurement from a.person appearance his and form his \[was\].from.\[the\] children of.humankind

*JPS 1917:* According as many were appalled at thee — so marred was his visage unlike that of a man, and his form unlike that of the sons of men —

[Leviticus 22:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.22.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.22.25/#tree)

וּמִיַּ֣ד בֶּן־נֵכָ֗ר לֹ֥א תַקְרִ֛יבוּ אֶת־לֶ֥חֶם אֱלֹהֵיכֶ֖ם מִכָּל־אֵ֑לֶּה כִּ֣י מָשְׁחָתָ֤ם בָּהֶם֙ מ֣וּם בָּ֔ם לֹ֥א יֵרָצ֖וּ לָכֶֽם׃פ

*Word for word:* and from the.hand of.a.son of.foreignness not you.must.present (et) the.food your.God your any of.all these.\[animals\] (dm) disfigurement their \[is\].in them a.blemish \[is\].in them not they.will.be.accepted for you

*JPS 1917:* Neither from the hand of a foreigner shall ye offer the bread of your God of any of these, because their corruption is in them, there is a blemish in them; they shall not be accepted for you.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4893.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4893/): 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).