מֵזַח

Biblical Hebrew

girdle — 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

girdle tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מֵ֫זַח: n.m. girdle tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.m. girdle (according to Bondi11 WMMAs. u. Eur. 104 loan-word from Egypt mḏḥ, cf. LagGGN 1889, 310);—abs. מ׳:—in sim. of curse enfolding the wicked ψ 109:19 (‖ בֶּגֶד); fig. = restraint Is 23:10 (but text dubious).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (2 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: a restraint (1); a waistband (1).

In the verses

Isaiah 23:10 · tree →

עִבְרִ֥י אַרְצֵ֖ךְ כַּיְאֹ֑ר בַּת־תַּרְשִׁ֕ישׁ אֵ֖ין מֵ֥זַח עֽוֹד׃

Word for word: pass.over land your like the River O.daughter of.Tarshish there.[is].not a.restraint still

JPS 1917: Overflow thy land as the Nile, O daughter of Tarshish! there is no girdle any more.

Psalms 109:19 · tree →

תְּהִי־ל֭וֹכְּבֶ֣גֶד יַעְטֶ֑ה וּ֝לְמֵ֗זַח תָּמִ֥יד יַחְגְּרֶֽהָ׃

Word for word: may.it.be for him like a.garment [which].he.wraps.himself and to a.waistband [which].continually he girds.it.on

JPS 1917: Let it be unto him as the garment which he putteth on, and for the girdle wherewith he is girded continually.'

On Mova

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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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