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מִזְרֶה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4214

pitch-fork — 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

pitch-fork tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִזְרֶה: pitch-fork tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.[m.] pitch-fork, with six prongs (= مذراة) used in winnowing, cf. WetzstZPV 1891, xiv. 2; for winnowing provender זֹרֶה בָרַחַת וּבְמ׳ Is 30:24; fig. for winnowing, i.e. chastising the people וָאֶזְרֵם בְּמ׳ Je 15:7.

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 (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 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: a winnowing fork (1); pitchfork (1).

In the verses

Jeremiah 15:7 · tree →

וָאֶזְרֵ֥ם בְּמִזְרֶ֖ה בְּשַׁעֲרֵ֣י הָאָ֑רֶץ שִׁכַּ֤לְתִּי אִבַּ֙דְתִּי֙ אֶת־עַמִּ֔י מִדַּרְכֵיהֶ֖ם לוֹא־שָֽׁבוּ׃

Word for word: and I have.winnowed.them with a.winnowing.fork in the.gates of the.land I.have.made.childless I.have.destroyed (et) people my from ways their not they.have.turned.away

JPS 1917: And I fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I bereave them of children, I destroy My people, since they return not from their ways.

Isaiah 30:24 · tree →

וְהָאֲלָפִ֣ים וְהָעֲיָרִ֗ים עֹֽבְדֵי֙ הָֽאֲדָמָ֔ה בְּלִ֥יל חָמִ֖יץ יֹאכֵ֑לוּ אֲשֶׁר־זֹרֶ֥ה בָרַ֖חַת וּבַמִּזְרֶֽה׃

Word for word: and the cattle(s) and the.male donkeys [which].till (of).the ground fodder salted they.will.eat which [someone.has.been].winnowing with the shovel and with the pitchfork

JPS 1917: The oxen likewise and the young asses that till the ground shall eat savoury provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.

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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