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# מַשְׂמְרָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4930

**nail** — 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

nail [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4930/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַסְמֵר²: n.m. nail [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4930/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Ec 12:11 nail (connexion with above √ dub.; 𝔗 מַסְמְרָא, Chr.Pal.Aramaic ܡܣܡܖ̈ܝܐ Schwally 63.122; NH vb. סמר nail on or up; Arabic مِسْمَارٌ is perhaps loan-word Frä 89);—pl. abs. מַסְמְרִים Is 41:7, מִסְמְרִים 1 Ch 22:3 (of iron; on—ִ v. Ges§ 85 f.); also מַסְמְרוֹת Je 10:4 (+ מַקָּבוֹת), מַשְׂמְרוֹת נְטוּעִים, Ec 12:11 (sim.; + דָּרְבֹנוֹת), and מִסְמְרוֹת 2 Ch 3:9 (of gold).

Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 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, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Ecclesiastes 12:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.12.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.12.11/#tree)

דִּבְרֵ֤י חֲכָמִים֙ כַּדָּ֣רְבֹנ֔וֹת וּֽכְמַשְׂמְר֥וֹת נְטוּעִ֖ים בַּעֲלֵ֣י אֲסֻפּ֑וֹת נִתְּנ֖וּ מֵרֹעֶ֥ה אֶחָֽד׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].words of.wise.\[people\] \[are\].like (the) goads and.\[are\] like nails firmly.fixed masters of.collections they.are.given from a.shepherd one

*JPS 1917:* The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails well fastened are those that are composed in collections; they are given from one shepherd.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4930.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4930/): 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).