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# מִשְׁעָן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4937

**support** — used 4 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

support [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4937/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִשְׁעָן²: support, staff [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4937/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] support, staff;—abs. מ׳, fig. of י׳, 2 S 22:19 = ψ 18:19; cstr. כֹּל מִשְׁעַן־לֶחֶם וְכֹל מִשְׁעַן־מָ֑יִם Is 3:1 (gloss, v. Comm.).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, 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: support (3); a support (1).

## In the verses

[2 Samuel 22:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.22.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.22.19/#tree)

יְקַדְּמֻ֖נִי בְּי֣וֹם אֵידִ֑י וַיְהִ֧י יְהוָ֛ה מִשְׁעָ֖ן לִֽי׃

*Word for word:* they confronted.me in the.day my.calamity my and he.was Yahweh a.support my

*JPS 1917:* They confronted me in the day of my calamity; but the LORD was a stay unto me.

[Psalms 18:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.18.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.18.19/#tree)

יְקַדְּמ֥וּנִי בְיוֹם־אֵידִ֑י וַֽיְהִי־יְהוָ֖ה לְמִשְׁעָ֣ן לִֽי׃

*Word for word:* they confronted.me in the.day my.calamity my and he.became Yahweh (into).a support my

*JPS 1917:* They confronted me in the day of my calamity; but the LORD was a stay unto me.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4937.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4937/): 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).