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מְאוּרָה

mᵉʼûwrâh · H3975 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. hole

    Hole in the ground; place where an animal lives

    Examples

    Isaiah 11:8 The nursing child will play by the hole of the cobra, And the weaned child will put his hand on the viper’s den.

How it’s used In 2 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Near synonyms 2 words
מְעָרָה mᵉʻârâh · H4631 · cave
Hebrew מְעָרָה (cave, den) is the most common Hebrew term for a cave or den, functionally synonymous with the rarer מְאוּרָה
חוּר chûwr · H2352 · white cloth, hole, den
Hebrew חֹר denotes a hole or cavern that can serve as an animal's lair, semantically overlapping with מְאוּרָה as a place of dwelling or hiding
In the other Testament 2 words
σπήλαιον spḗlaion · G4693 · cave, den, hideout
Greek σπήλαιον is the standard translation equivalent for Hebrew מְאוּרָה, both denoting a natural cave or den used as an animal's lair or hiding place
φωλεός phōleós · G5454 · hole, den, lair
Greek φωλεός denotes an animal's den, hole, or lair, semantically overlapping with מְאוּרָה as a dwelling place for wild animals
Word family 7 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

אוֹר ʼôwr · H215 · to be light, to become light, to shine · 44×אוֹר ʼôwr · H216 · light, smile, favor · 120×מָאוֹר mâʼôwr · H3974 · light, luminary · 19×אוּרִים ʼÛwrîym · H224 · fire, eastern country · 7×אוּר ʼûwr · H217 · fire, eastern country · 6×אוֹרָה ʼôwrâh · H219 · light, herbs · 4×מְאוּרָהmᵉʼûwrâh · H3975
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3975. muwrah [מְאוּרָה] noun feminine light-hole — only construct מְאוּרַת — = den of…
H3975. muwrah
[מְאוּרָה] noun feminine light-hole — only construct מְאוּרַת — = den of great viper Isa 11:8, compare מָאוֺר Mishna Ohaloth Isa 13:1 (others eye-ball ᵑ7 Ew De Di).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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