מִקְוֶה

Biblical Hebrew

collection — 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

collection tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִקְוֶה²: collection, collected tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.[m.] collection, collected mass (P);—cstr. מִקְוֵה Gn 1:10 (מִקְוֶה also v 9, for מָקוֹם, according to 𝔊 Ball), Ex 7:19; Lv 11:36, all of water.—מ׳ 1 K 10:28(×2) = מִקְוֵא 2 Ch 1:16 (company of merchants; drove of horses), v. קֹוֶה.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: (the) collecting place (1); a collecting place (1); place (1).

In the verses

Leviticus 11:36 · tree →

אַ֣ךְ מַעְיָ֥ן וּב֛וֹר מִקְוֵה־מַ֖יִם יִהְיֶ֣ה טָה֑וֹר וְנֹגֵ֥עַ בְּנִבְלָתָ֖ם יִטְמָֽא׃

Word for word: nevertheless a.spring and a.cistern a.collecting.place of.water it.will.be pure and [one.who].touches (in) carcass their he.will.be.unclean

JPS 1917: Nevertheless a fountain or a cistern wherein is a gathering of water shall be clean; but he who toucheth their carcass shall be unclean.

Genesis 1:10 · tree →

וַיִּקְרָ֨א אֱלֹהִ֤ים ׀ לַיַּבָּשָׁה֙ אֶ֔רֶץ וּלְמִקְוֵ֥ה הַמַּ֖יִם קָרָ֣א יַמִּ֑ים וַיַּ֥רְא אֱלֹהִ֖ים כִּי־טֽוֹב׃

Word for word: and he.called God (to).the dry land earth and.(to) the.collecting place of the.waters he.called seas and he.saw God (dm).that [it.was].good

JPS 1917: And God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters called He Seas; and God saw that it was good.

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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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