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# מִשְׁעֶנֶת

Biblical Hebrew

**staff** — used 11 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

staff [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b4_5e9_5b0_5c1_5e2_5b6_5e0_5b6_5ea/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִשְׁעֶ֫נֶת: n.f. staff [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b4_5e9_5b0_5c1_5e2_5b6_5e0_5b6_5ea/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. staff;—abs. Ju 6:21; 2 K 4:31; cstr. 2 K 18:21 +; sf. מִשְׁעַנְתּוֹ Ex 21:19; Zc 8:4, etc.; pl. sf. מִשְׁעֲנֹתָם Nu 21:18;—staff, Ex 21:19 (E) Nu 21:18 (J) Ju 6:21; 2 K 4:29(×2) 31; Zc 8:4; fig. of political support, מִשְׁעֶנֶת הַקָּנֶה הָרָצוּץ 2 K 18:21 = Is 36:6, cf. Ez 29:6; of י׳ as shepherd ψ 23:4 (+ שֵׁבֶט).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: staff (6); the staff (3); a staff (1).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 29:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.29.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.29.6/#tree)

וְיָֽדְעוּ֙ כָּל־יֹשְׁבֵ֣י מִצְרַ֔יִם כִּ֖י אֲנִ֣י יְהוָ֑ה יַ֧עַן הֱיוֹתָ֛ם מִשְׁעֶ֥נֶת קָנֶ֖ה לְבֵ֥ית יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* and they.will.know all the.inhabitants of.Egypt (dm).that I \[am\].Yahweh because they have.been a.staff of.reed for the.house of.Israel

*JPS 1917:* And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the LORD, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.

[Numbers 21:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.21.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.21.18/#tree)

בְּאֵ֞ר חֲפָר֣וּהָ שָׂרִ֗ים כָּר֙וּהָ֙ נְדִיבֵ֣י הָעָ֔ם בִּמְחֹקֵ֖ק בְּמִשְׁעֲנֹתָ֑ם וּמִמִּדְבָּ֖ר מַתָּנָֽה׃

*Word for word:* a.well \[which\].they dug.it \[the\].leaders \[which\].they dug.it the.noble.\[people\] of the.people with a.ruler's.staff with staffs their and from.\[the\] wilderness Mattanah

*JPS 1917:* The well, which the princes digged, which the nobles of the people delved, with the sceptre, and with their staves. And from the wilderness to Mattanah;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5de_5b4_5e9_5b0_5c1_5e2_5b6_5e0_5b6_5ea.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b4_5e9_5b0_5c1_5e2_5b6_5e0_5b6_5ea/): 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).