מִשְׁפְּתַיִם
Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4942
Meaning
OpenScriptures lexical index
fire-places tree →
Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906
מִשְׁפְּתַ֫יִם: du. fire-places ash-heaps tree →
The whole BDB entry
n.[m.] du. prob. fire-places or ash-heaps (viz. of the villages or encampments of the tribe) (> Ki Thes and most sheepfolds, v. StuJu);—בֵּין הַמִּשְׁפְּתַ֫יִם Ju 5:16 (poem; cf. GFM); so (-תָּ֑יִם) Gn 49:14 (poem in J).
Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)
Glosses
MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: saddlebaskets (2).
In the verses
יִשָּׂשכָ֖ר חֲמֹ֣ר גָּ֑רֶם רֹבֵ֖ץ בֵּ֥ין הַֽמִּשְׁפְּתָֽיִם׃
Word for word: Issachar [is].a.donkey of.bone lying.down between the.two saddlebaskets
JPS 1917: Issachar is a large-boned ass, couching down between the sheep-folds.
לָ֣מָּה יָשַׁ֗בְתָּ בֵּ֚ין הַֽמִּשְׁפְּתַ֔יִם לִשְׁמֹ֖עַ שְׁרִק֣וֹת עֲדָרִ֑ים לִפְלַגּ֣וֹת רְאוּבֵ֔ן גְּדוֹלִ֖ים חִקְרֵי־לֵֽב׃
Word for word: why? did.you.sit between the.two saddlebaskets to hear [the].whistling of.[the].flocks to the.divisions of.Reuben [were].great searchings of.heart
JPS 1917: Why sattest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the pipings for the flocks? At the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.
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