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# מֶשֶׁךְ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4901

**a drawing** — 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

a drawing [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4901/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מֶ֫שֶׁךְ: drawing, drawing up, trail [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4901/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] a drawing, drawing up, a trail;— cstr. מֶשֶׁךְ חָכְמָה מִפְּנִינִים Jb 28:18 the drawing up (fishing up, i.e. securing after effort) of wisdom is beyond corals. cstr. a trail (of seed), מֶ׳ הַזָּ֑רַע ψ 126:6 bearing the trail of seed; cf. מָשַׁךְ 6.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: (the) bag (1); price (1).

## In the verses

[Job 28:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.28.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.28.18/#tree)

רָאמ֣וֹת וְ֭גָבִישׁ לֹ֣א יִזָּכֵ֑ר וּמֶ֥שֶׁךְ חָ֝כְמָ֗ה מִפְּנִינִֽים׃

*Word for word:* corals and crystal not it.is.remembered and.\[the\] price of.wisdom \[is\].more than.corals

*JPS 1917:* No mention shall be made of coral or of crystal; yea, the price of wisdom is above rubies.

[Psalms 126:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.126.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.126.6/#tree)

הָ֘ל֤וֹךְ יֵלֵ֨ךְ ׀ וּבָכֹה֮ נֹשֵׂ֪א מֶֽשֶׁךְ־הַ֫זָּ֥רַע בֹּֽ֬א־יָב֥וֹאבְרִנָּ֑ה נֹ֝שֵׂ֗א אֲלֻמֹּתָֽיו׃

*Word for word:* going he.will.go and weeping carrying (the).bag of.(the) seed certainly.(come) he.will.come with a.shout.of.joy carrying sheaves his

*JPS 1917:* Though he goeth on his way weeping that beareth the measure of seed, he shall come home with joy, bearing his sheaves.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4901.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4901/): 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).