מַזְמֵרָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4211

pruning-knife — used 4 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

pruning-knife tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַזִמֵרָה: n.f. pruning-knife tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.f. pruning-knife, only pl. וְכָרַת הַזַּלְזַלִּים בַּמַּזְמֵרוֹת Is 18:5; לְמַזְמֵרוֹת Is 2:4 Mi 4:3 (both ‖ לְאִתִּים); וּמַזְמֵרֹתֵיכֶם Jo 4:10 (‖ אִתֵּיכֶם).

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

Glosses

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

In the verses

Joel 4:10 · tree →

כֹּ֤תּוּ אִתֵּיכֶם֙ לַֽחֲרָב֔וֹת וּמַזְמְרֹֽתֵיכֶ֖ם לִרְמָחִ֑ים הַֽחַלָּ֔שׁ יֹאמַ֖ר גִּבּ֥וֹר אָֽנִי׃

Word for word: beat plowshares your into swords and your.pruning knives into spears the.weak [man] let.him.say [am].a.warrior I

JPS 1917: Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning-hooks into spears; let the weak say: 'I am strong.'

Isaiah 18:5 · tree →

כִּֽי־לִפְנֵ֤י קָצִיר֙ כְּתָם־פֶּ֔רַח וּבֹ֥סֶר גֹּמֵ֖ל יִֽהְיֶ֣ה נִצָּ֑ה וְכָרַ֤ת הַזַּלְזַלִּים֙ בַּמַּזְמֵר֔וֹת וְאֶת־הַנְּטִישׁ֖וֹת הֵסִ֥יר הֵתַֽז׃

Word for word: (dm) before harvest just as.is.finished bud[s] and unripe.grape[s] ripening it.will.become blossom and he.will.cut.off the shoots with.(the) pruning knives and (et) the tendrils he.will.remove he.will.cut.away

JPS 1917: For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the bud becometh a ripening grape, He will cut off the sprigs with pruning-hooks, and the shoots will He take away and lop off.

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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