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# עֹפֶל

Biblical Hebrew

**mound** — used 3 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

mound [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b9_5e4_5b6_5dc/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֹ֫פֶל: mound, hill [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b9_5e4_5b6_5dc/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n. \[m.\] mound, hill, only as acropolis;—ע׳ abs. 2 K 5:24 +, cstr. Mi 4:8;—fortified mound or hill within city, of Jerus. (cf. RobBR i. 267 GuZPVv (1882), 326) Mi 4:8; Is 32:14; S. end of eastern hill Ne 3:26; 11:21; 2 Ch 33:14 חוֹמַת הָע׳ Ne 3:27; 2 Ch 27:3 (cf. חמת העפל in קרחה MI21.22); of Samaria 2 K 5:24.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: O hill (1); \[the\] hill (1); hill (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 32:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.32.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.32.14/#tree)

כִּֽי־אַרְמ֣וֹן נֻטָּ֔שׁ הֲמ֥וֹן עִ֖יר עֻזָּ֑ב עֹ֣פֶל וָבַ֜חַן הָיָ֨ה בְעַ֤ד מְעָרוֹת֙ עַד־עוֹלָ֔ם מְשׂ֥וֹשׂ פְּרָאִ֖ים מִרְעֵ֥ה עֲדָרִֽים׃

*Word for word:* (dm) \[the\].palace it.will.be.forsaken \[the\].tumult of.\[the\].city it.will.be.abandoned \[the\].hill and.\[the\] watchtower it.will.become behind caves until perpetuity a.joy of.wild.donkeys a.pasture of.flocks

*JPS 1917:* For the palace shall be forsaken; the city with its stir shall be deserted; the mound and the tower shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;

[Micah 4:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.4.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.4.8/#tree)

וְאַתָּ֣ה מִגְדַּל־עֵ֗דֶרמִגְדַּל־עֵ֗דֶר עֹ֛פֶל בַּת־צִיּ֖וֹן עָדֶ֣יךָ תֵּאתֶ֑ה וּבָאָ֗ה הַמֶּמְשָׁלָה֙ הָרִ֣אשֹׁנָ֔ה מַמְלֶ֖כֶת לְבַ֥ת־יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם׃

*Word for word:* and you O Migdal.Eder O.hill of.the.daughter of.Zion to you it.will.come and it.will.come the dominion (the) former a.kingdom to the.daughter of.Jerusalem

*JPS 1917:* And thou, Migdal-eder, the hill of the daughter of Zion, unto thee shall it come; yea, the former dominion shall come, the kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e2_5b9_5e4_5b6_5dc.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b9_5e4_5b6_5dc/): 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).