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# מִשְׁטָח

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4894

**spreading-place** — 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

spreading-place [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4894/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִשְׁטָח: spreading-place [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4894/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] spreading-place (NH for drying figs, etc., (ARSKennedyEncy. Bib. fruit, 1568));—cstr. מִשְׁטַח חֲרָמִים Ez 26:5, 14.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a spreading place (3).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 26:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.26.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.26.14/#tree)

וּנְתַתִּ֞יךְ לִצְחִ֣יחַ סֶ֗לַע מִשְׁטַ֤ח חֲרָמִים֙ תִּֽהְיֶ֔ה לֹ֥א תִבָּנֶ֖ה ע֑וֹד כִּ֣י אֲנִ֤י יְהוָה֙ דִּבַּ֔רְתִּי נְאֻ֖ם אֲדֹנָ֥י יְהוִֽה׃ס

*Word for word:* and I will.make.you into bareness of.rock a.spreading.place of.nets you.will.be not you.will.be.built again (dm) I Yahweh I.have.spoken the.utterance Lord of.\[the\] Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* And I will make thee a bare rock; thou shalt be a place for the spreading of nets, thou shalt be built no more; for I the LORD have spoken, saith the Lord GOD.

[Ezekiel 26:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.26.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.26.5/#tree)

מִשְׁטַ֨ח חֲרָמִ֤ים תִּֽהְיֶה֙ בְּת֣וֹךְ הַיָּ֔ם כִּ֚י אֲנִ֣י דִבַּ֔רְתִּי נְאֻ֖ם אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֑ה וְהָיְתָ֥ה לְבַ֖ז לַגּוֹיִֽם׃

*Word for word:* a.spreading.place of.nets it.will.be in the.middle of the.sea (dm) I I.have.spoken the.utterance Lord of.\[the\] Yahweh and it.will.become (into) spoil for the nations

*JPS 1917:* She shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea; for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD; and she shall become a spoil to the nations.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4894.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4894/): 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).