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# מֶשֶׁךְ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4902

**Mesech** — used 9 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

Mesech [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4902/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מֶ֫שֶׁךְ²: n.pr.gent. the Moschi [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4902/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.gent. the Moschi (Gk Μοσχοι, v. infr.; Assyrian Mušku, Muški, DlPar 250 SchrCOT Gn 10, 2; KGF 155 ff.; cf. Sab. משך Hal243);—‘son’ of Japheth Gn 10:2 (P), between תֻּבָל and תִּירָס, = 1 Ch 1:5; also, מֶ֑שֶׁךְ, prob. error, v 17 (v. מַשׁ); מֶ֑שֶׁךְ ψ 120:5 (‖ קֵדָר; here without תֻּבָל); תּוּבַל וּמ׳ Ez 27:13 cf. 32:26; 38:2 (both + תֻּבָל); so also 𝔊 Is 66:19 (Lo StaJavan 8 Du CheHpt. v. supr. מָשַׁךְ 2); גּוֹג נְשִׂיא רֹאשׁ מ׳ וְתֻבָ֑ל Ez 38:3; 39:1. 𝔊 Μοσοχ (Μεσοχ), Sam. מושׁ(י)ך.—On identif. cf. Boch.; in Assyrian times they dwelt in W. (or NW.) Armenia (cf. Schrl.c.); in Pers. times appar. farther NE. (SE. of Euxine Sea), cf. Μοσξοι καὶ Τιβαρηνοι Herod.iii. 94; vii. 78; also Di Gn 10:2 and CheEncycl. Bib. Art. Geogr. (Biblical).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Meshech (6); of Meshech (3).

## In the verses

[Psalms 120:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.120.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.120.5/#tree)

אֽוֹיָה־לִ֭י כִּי־גַ֣רְתִּי מֶ֑שֶׁךְ שָׁ֝כַ֗נְתִּי עִֽם־אָהֳלֵ֥י קֵדָֽר׃

*Word for word:* woe! to me (dm) I.have.sojourned Meshech I.have.dwelt with the.tents of.Kedar

*JPS 1917:* Woe is me, that I sojourn with Meshech, that I dwell beside the tents of Kedar!

[Genesis 10:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.10.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.10.2/#tree)

בְּנֵ֣י יֶ֔פֶת גֹּ֣מֶר וּמָג֔וֹג וּמָדַ֖י וְיָוָ֣ן וְתֻבָ֑ל וּמֶ֖שֶׁךְ וְתִירָֽס׃

*Word for word:* the.sons of.Japheth \[were\].Gomer and Magog and Madai and Javan and Tubal and Meshech and Tiras

*JPS 1917:* The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4902.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4902/): 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).