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# מִשְׁפְּתַיִם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4942

**fire-places** — 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

fire-places [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4942/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִשְׁפְּתַ֫יִם: du. fire-places ash-heaps [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4942/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] du. prob. fire-places or ash-heaps (viz. of the villages or encampments of the tribe) (\> Ki Thes and most sheepfolds, v. StuJu);—בֵּין הַמִּשְׁפְּתַ֫יִם Ju 5:16 (poem; cf. GFM); so (-תָּ֑יִם) Gn 49:14 (poem in J).

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 (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 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: saddlebaskets (2).

## In the verses

[Genesis 49:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.49.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.49.14/#tree)

יִשָּׂשכָ֖ר חֲמֹ֣ר גָּ֑רֶם רֹבֵ֖ץ בֵּ֥ין הַֽמִּשְׁפְּתָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* Issachar \[is\].a.donkey of.bone lying.down between the.two saddlebaskets

*JPS 1917:* Issachar is a large-boned ass, couching down between the sheep-folds.

[Judges 5:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.5.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.5.16/#tree)

לָ֣מָּה יָשַׁ֗בְתָּ בֵּ֚ין הַֽמִּשְׁפְּתַ֔יִם לִשְׁמֹ֖עַ שְׁרִק֣וֹת עֲדָרִ֑ים לִפְלַגּ֣וֹת רְאוּבֵ֔ן גְּדוֹלִ֖ים חִקְרֵי־לֵֽב׃

*Word for word:* why? did.you.sit between the.two saddlebaskets to hear \[the\].whistling of.\[the\].flocks to the.divisions of.Reuben \[were\].great searchings of.heart

*JPS 1917:* Why sattest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the pipings for the flocks? At the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4942.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4942/): 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).