מוֹתָר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4195

abundance — 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

abundance tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מוֹתָר: n.m. abundance, pre-eminence tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.m. Pr 14:23 abundance, pre-eminence;— abundance, plenty מוֹתָ֑ר Pr 14:23; 21:5 (in both opp. מַחְסוֹר). 2, מוֹתַר הָאָדָם מִן־הַבְּהֵמָה אָיִן Ec 3:19 the superiority of man over beast is nothing.

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 (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

Glosses

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

In the verses

Proverbs 14:23 · tree →

בְּכָל־עֶ֭צֶב יִהְיֶ֣ה מוֹתָ֑ר וּדְבַר־שְׂ֝פָתַ֗יִם אַךְ־לְמַחְסֽוֹר׃

Word for word: in all hard.labor it.is profit and word of.lips [is].only to lack

JPS 1917: In all labour there is profit; but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.

Proverbs 21:5 · tree →

מַחְשְׁב֣וֹת חָ֭רוּץ אַךְ־לְמוֹתָ֑ר וְכָל־אָ֝֗ץ אַךְ־לְמַחְסֽוֹר׃

Word for word: [the].plans of.a.diligent.[person] [are].only to profit and every [one.who].hastens [is].only to lack

JPS 1917: The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but every one that is hasty hasteth only to want.

On Mova

Trees and pragmatics of its meanings: 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).

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