מִשְׁעֶנֶת

Biblical Hebrew

staff — used 11 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

staff tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִשְׁעֶ֫נֶת: n.f. staff tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.f. staff;—abs. Ju 6:21; 2 K 4:31; cstr. 2 K 18:21 +; sf. מִשְׁעַנְתּוֹ Ex 21:19; Zc 8:4, etc.; pl. sf. מִשְׁעֲנֹתָם Nu 21:18;—staff, Ex 21:19 (E) Nu 21:18 (J) Ju 6:21; 2 K 4:29(×2) 31; Zc 8:4; fig. of political support, מִשְׁעֶנֶת הַקָּנֶה הָרָצוּץ 2 K 18:21 = Is 36:6, cf. Ez 29:6; of י׳ as shepherd ψ 23:4 (+ שֵׁבֶט).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: staff (6); the staff (3); a staff (1).

In the verses

Ezekiel 29:6 · tree →

וְיָֽדְעוּ֙ כָּל־יֹשְׁבֵ֣י מִצְרַ֔יִם כִּ֖י אֲנִ֣י יְהוָ֑ה יַ֧עַן הֱיוֹתָ֛ם מִשְׁעֶ֥נֶת קָנֶ֖ה לְבֵ֥ית יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

Word for word: and they.will.know all the.inhabitants of.Egypt (dm).that I [am].Yahweh because they have.been a.staff of.reed for the.house of.Israel

JPS 1917: And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the LORD, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.

Numbers 21:18 · tree →

בְּאֵ֞ר חֲפָר֣וּהָ שָׂרִ֗ים כָּר֙וּהָ֙ נְדִיבֵ֣י הָעָ֔ם בִּמְחֹקֵ֖ק בְּמִשְׁעֲנֹתָ֑ם וּמִמִּדְבָּ֖ר מַתָּנָֽה׃

Word for word: a.well [which].they dug.it [the].leaders [which].they dug.it the.noble.[people] of the.people with a.ruler's.staff with staffs their and from.[the] wilderness Mattanah

JPS 1917: The well, which the princes digged, which the nobles of the people delved, with the sceptre, and with their staves. And from the wilderness to Mattanah;

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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