מֹשְׁכֹות

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4189

cord — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

Meaning

OpenScriptures lexical index

cord tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מֹשֶׁ֫כֶת: n.f. cord tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.f. cord;—only pl. cstr. מֹשְׁכוֹת כְּסִיל Jb 38:31 the cords of Orion, i.e. prob. those by which (according to some legend) he is dragged along in the sky (cf. Di).

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, 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: the cords (1).

In the verses

Job 38:31 · tree →

הַֽ֭תְקַשֵּׁר מַעֲדַנּ֣וֹת כִּימָ֑ה אֽוֹ־מֹשְׁכ֖וֹת כְּסִ֣יל תְּפַתֵּֽחַ׃

Word for word: will you.bind.on? the.bonds of.Pleiades or? the.cords of.Orion will.you.loosen

JPS 1917: Canst thou bind the chains of the Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?

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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