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# מְתֹם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4974

**soundness** — 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

soundness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4974/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מְתֹם²: soundness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4974/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] soundness; in phr. אֵין מְתֹם ב׳ Is 1:6 ψ 38:4, 8; מֵעִיר מְ֯תֹם Ju 20:48 from entire city (Codd. De Rossi Bu GFM מְתִם, v. מַת and cf. עיר מת(י)ם Dt 2:34; 3:6 Jb 24:12).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 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 (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Psalms 38:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.38.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.38.8/#tree)

כִּֽי־כְ֭סָלַי מָלְא֣וּ נִקְלֶ֑ה וְאֵ֥ין מְ֝תֹ֗ם בִּבְשָׂרִֽי׃

*Word for word:* (dm) loins my they.are.full burning.\[pain\] and there.\[is\].not soundness in flesh my

*JPS 1917:* For my loins are filled with burning; and there is no soundness in my flesh.

[Psalms 38:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.38.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.38.4/#tree)

אֵין־מְתֹ֣ם בִּ֭בְשָׂרִי מִפְּנֵ֣י זַעְמֶ֑ךָ אֵין־שָׁל֥וֹם בַּ֝עֲצָמַ֗י מִפְּנֵ֥י חַטָּאתִֽי׃

*Word for word:* there.\[is\].not soundness in flesh my because of indignation your there.\[is\].not health in bones my because of sin my

*JPS 1917:* There is no soundness in my flesh because of Thine indignation; neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4974/): 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).