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# מִשְׁטָר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4896

**rule** — 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

rule [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4896/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִשְׁטָר²: n.m. rule, authority [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4896/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. rule, authority;—sf. מִשְׁטָרוֹ Jb 38:33 (of heavens over earth).

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 (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: rule (1).

## In the verses

[Job 38:33](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.38.33/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.38.33/#tree)

הֲ֭יָדַעְתָּ חֻקּ֣וֹת שָׁמָ֑יִם אִם־תָּשִׂ֖ים מִשְׁטָר֣וֹ בָאָֽרֶץ׃

*Word for word:* do you.know? \[the\].statutes of.\[the\].heavens or? do.you.appoint rule its over the earth

*JPS 1917:* Knowest thou the ordinances of the heavens? Canst thou establish the dominion thereof in the earth?

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4896/): 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).