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# מְשֻכָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4881

**hedge** — 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

hedge [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4881/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מְשֻׂכָֿה²: n.f. hedge [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4881/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. hedge (=מְסוּכָה);—cstr. מְשֻׂכַֿת חָ֑דֶק Pr 15:19 (in sim.).—מְשׂוּכָּתוֹ v. III. שׂכך.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword without dagesh, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a hedge (1); hedge (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 15:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.15.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.15.19/#tree)

דֶּ֣רֶךְ עָ֭צֵל כִּמְשֻׂ֣כַת חָ֑דֶק וְאֹ֖רַח יְשָׁרִ֣ים סְלֻלָֽה׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].way of.a.sluggard \[is\].like a.hedge of.thorn\[s\] and.\[the\] path of.upright.\[people\] \[is\].cast.up

*JPS 1917:* The way of the sluggard is as though hedged by thorns; but the path of the upright is even.

[Isaiah 5:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.5.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.5.5/#tree)

וְעַתָּה֙ אוֹדִֽיעָה־נָּ֣א אֶתְכֶ֔ם אֵ֛ת אֲשֶׁר־אֲנִ֥י עֹשֶׂ֖ה לְכַרְמִ֑י הָסֵ֤ר מְשׂוּכָּתוֹ֙ וְהָיָ֣ה לְבָעֵ֔ר פָּרֹ֥ץ גְּדֵר֖וֹ וְהָיָ֥ה לְמִרְמָֽס׃

*Word for word:* and therefore let.me.make.know please you (et) \[that\].which I \[am\].about.to.do to vineyard my I.will.remove hedge its and it.will.become (into) grazing I.will.break.down wall its and it.will.become (into).a trampling.place

*JPS 1917:* And now come, I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; I will break down the fence thereof, and it shall be trodden down;

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4881/): 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).