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# מִשְׁתֶּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4960

**feast** — used 46 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

feast [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4960/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִשְׁתֶּה²: n.m. feast drink [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4960/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Gn 21:8 1. feast; 2. drink;—abs. מ׳ Gn 19:3 +; cstr. מִשְׁתֵּה 1 S 25:36 +; sf. מִשְׁתָּיו Dn 1:5 + (Ges§ 93 ss), etc.;— feast, banquet (occasion for drinking, drinking-bout), 1 S 25:36(×2); Is 5:12; Je 51:39 (fig.), Jb 1:5; Est 2:18; 5:14; 8:17; 9:19; lasting seven days Ju 14:12, 17 (wedding-feast, cf. Gn 29:22, and v. BenzArch. 143; Ency. Bib. 2949 NowArch. i. 163); עָשָׂה מ׳ give or make a feast (sometimes + ל pers.) Gn 19:3; 26:30 (both J), 21:8; 40:20 (both E), Ju 14:10; 2 S 3:20 1 K 3:15; Est 1:3 + 8 times Est, Jb 1:4 + 2 S 13:27(×2) 𝔊 Th We Dr and mod.; מִשְׁתֵּה הַיַּיִן Est 5:6; 7:2, 7, בֵּית מִשְׁתֶּה Je 16:8; Ec 7:2, בֵּית מִשְׁתֵּה הַיַּיִן Est 7:8; יוֹם מ׳ וְשִׂמְחָה Est 9:17, 18, cf. v 22; of י׳’s banquet for all peoples Is 25:6 (fig. of Messianic blessings); fig. also in טוֹב־לֵב מ׳ תָּמִיד Pr 15:15. drink (late): מַאֲכָל וּמ׳ וָשֶׁמֶן Ezr 3:7; sf. יֵין מִשְׁתָּיו Dn 1:5, 8; מִשְׁתֵּיהֶם v 16; מִשְׁתֵּיכֶם v 10.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 36 of its verses cited, 2 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 (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a feast (18); feast (9); the feast (7).

## In the verses

[Genesis 26:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.26.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.26.30/#tree)

וַיַּ֤עַשׂ לָהֶם֙ מִשְׁתֶּ֔ה וַיֹּאכְל֖וּ וַיִּשְׁתּֽוּ׃

*Word for word:* and he.prepared for them a.feast and they.ate and they.drank

*JPS 1917:* And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink.

[Proverbs 15:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.15.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.15.15/#tree)

כָּל־יְמֵ֣י עָנִ֣י רָעִ֑ים וְטֽוֹב־לֵ֝֗ב מִשְׁתֶּ֥ה תָמִֽיד׃

*Word for word:* all \[the\].days of.\[the\].afflicted \[are\].displeasing and a.\[person\].good of.heart \[is\].a.feast continually

*JPS 1917:* All the days of the poor are evil; but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4960/): 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).