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# מַשְׂטֵמָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4895

**animosity** — 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

animosity [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4895/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַשְׂטֵמָה²: n.f. animosity [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4895/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. animosity;—Ho 9:7 + v 8 (del. We, cf. Now).

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

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Hosea 9:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.9.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.9.8/#tree)

צֹפֶ֥ה אֶפְרַ֖יִם עִם־אֱלֹהָ֑י נָבִ֞יא פַּ֤ח יָקוֹשׁ֙ עַל־כָּל־דְּרָכָ֔יו מַשְׂטֵמָ֖ה בְּבֵ֥ית אֱלֹהָֽיו׃

*Word for word:* \[was\].a.watchman Ephraim with God my a.prophet a.trap of.a.fowler \[is\].on all ways his animosity \[is\].in the.house his.God his

*JPS 1917:* Ephraim is a watchman with my God; as for the prophet, a fowler's snare is in all his ways, and enmity in the house of his God.

[Hosea 9:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.9.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.9.7/#tree)

בָּ֣אוּ ׀ יְמֵ֣י הַפְּקֻדָּ֗ה בָּ֚אוּ יְמֵ֣י הַשִׁלֻּ֔םיֵדְע֖וּ יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל אֱוִ֣יל הַנָּבִ֗יא מְשֻׁגָּע֙ אִ֣ישׁ הָר֔וּחַ עַ֚ל רֹ֣ב עֲוֺנְךָ֔ וְרַבָּ֖ה מַשְׂטֵמָֽה׃

*Word for word:* they.have.come the.days of.(the) punishment they.have.come the.days of.(the) retribution let.them.know Israel \[is\].a.fool the prophet \[is\].mad the.person of the.spirit on the.greatness your.iniquity your and great animosity

*JPS 1917:* The days of visitation are come, the days of recompense are come, Israel shall know it. The prophet is a fool, the man of the spirit is mad! For the multitude of thine iniquity, the enmity is great.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4895/): 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).