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# עֹצֶר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6115

**restraint** — 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

restraint [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6115/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֹ֫צֶר: restraint, coercion [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6115/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] restraint, coercion;—ע׳ abs.: מֵע׳ וּמִמִּשְׁפָּט Is 53:8 from (as a result of) coercion and judgment he was taken off; cstr. ע׳ רָעָה ψ 107:39; ע׳ רָ֑חַם Pr 30:16 restraint of womb, barrenness (so ψ 107:39 PerlesAnal. 85).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 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, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: oppression (2); barrenness (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 107:39](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.107.39/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.107.39/#tree)

וַיִּמְעֲט֥וּ וַיָּשֹׁ֑חוּ מֵעֹ֖צֶר רָעָ֣ה וְיָגֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* and they.became.few and they.were.bowed.down from.\[the\] oppression of.calamity and sorrow

*JPS 1917:* Again, they are minished and dwindle away through oppression of evil and sorrow.

[Proverbs 30:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.30.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.30.16/#tree)

שְׁאוֹל֮ וְעֹ֪צֶ֫ר רָ֥חַם אֶ֭רֶץ לֹא־שָׂ֣בְעָה מַּ֑יִם וְ֝אֵ֗שׁ לֹא־אָ֥מְרָה הֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* Sheol and barrenness of.a.womb land \[which\].not it.is.satisfied water and fire \[which\].not it.says enough

*JPS 1917:* The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not satisfied with water; and the fire that saith not: 'Enough.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6115.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6115/): 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).