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מַאֲכֹלֶת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3980

fuel — 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

fuel tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַאֲכֹ֫לֶת: n.f. fuel tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.f. fuel cstr., only מַא׳ אֵשׁ Is 9:4, 18.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 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 (2 candidates)

Glosses

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

In the verses

Isaiah 9:4 · tree →

כִּ֤י כָל־סְאוֹן֙ סֹאֵ֣ן בְּרַ֔עַשׁ וְשִׂמְלָ֖ה מְגוֹלָלָ֣ה בְדָמִ֑ים וְהָיְתָ֥ה לִשְׂרֵפָ֖ה מַאֲכֹ֥לֶת אֵֽשׁ׃

Word for word: (dm) every boot [which].marches with shaking and cloak rolled in blood(s) and it.will.be for burning fuel of.a.fire

JPS 1917: For every boot stamped with fierceness, and every cloak rolled in blood, shall even be for burning, for fuel of fire.

Isaiah 9:18 · tree →

בְּעֶבְרַ֛ת יְהוָ֥ה צְבָא֖וֹת נֶעְתַּ֣ם אָ֑רֶץ וַיְהִ֤י הָעָם֙ כְּמַאֲכֹ֣לֶת אֵ֔שׁ אִ֥ישׁ אֶל־אָחִ֖יו לֹ֥א יַחְמֹֽלוּ׃

Word for word: by the.wrath of.Yahweh of.hosts it.has.been.scorched [the].land and it.was the people like fuel of.a.fire each (to) brother his not they.spared

JPS 1917: Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts is the land burnt up; the people also are as the fuel of fire; no man spareth his brother.

On Mova

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).

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