Word

מֶגֶד

meged · H4022 · Hebrew · 8 occurrences

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Meanings

choice

Object of an extraordinary good quality

Examples
Deuteronomy 33:13 Of Joseph he said, “Blessed of the LORD be his land, With the choice things of heaven, with the dew, And from the deep waters lying beneath,
Deuteronomy 33:14 And with the choice yield of the sun, And the choice produce of the months;
Deuteronomy 33:15 And with the best things of the ancient mountains, With the choice things of the everlasting hills,

How it’s used In 5 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

6 occurrences in 7 groups

גִּבְעָהhill 1
גֶּרֶשׁyield 1
מְלֹאgroup 1
אֶרֶץland, earth, ground 1
שָׁמַיִםheaven, sky 1
תְּבוּאָהyield 1

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

1 occurrences in 2 groups

חָדָשׁnew 1
יָשָׁןold 1

What it is said to bePredicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

פֶּתַחentrance, doorway 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

5 occurrences in 1 groups

מִןfrom 5

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

2 occurrences in 1 groups

פְּרִיfruit, produce 2

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.

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Near synonyms 1 word

זִמְרָה zimrâh · H2173 · music, strength: זִמְרָה emphasizes "best" (superlative quality), while מֶגֶד emphasizes "pleasant, precious" (desirability and value).

Semantic domains 1 entry

Good002001001031: מֶגֶד denotes something pleasant or precious, as in Deuteronomy 33:13-16's blessing of "the precious things of heaven" and "the precious things of the earth," placing it among terms describing something excellent or choice.

Word family 2 words

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

מֶגֶדmeged · H4022מִגְדָּנָה migdânâh · H4030 · valuable things, choice things · 4×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4022. meged מֶ֫גֶד noun masculine excellence (Late Hebrew id., choice fruit; Syriac…

H4022. meged
מֶ֫גֶד noun masculine excellence (Late Hebrew id., choice fruit; Syriac fruit; Arabic glory, honour, nobility); — ׳מ construct Deu 33:13 Deu 33:4t. Deuteronomy 33; plural מְגָדִים Cant 4:13; Song 7:14; suffix מְגָדָיו Cant 4:16 — excellence: excellent or choice things; always of gifts of nature: ׳מ שָׁמַיִם Deu 33:13 i.e. (natural) gifts of heaven; ׳מ שֶׁמֶשׁ תְּבוּאֹת Deu 33:14; ׳מ יְרָחִים גֶּרֶשׁ Deu 33:14; ׳מ עוֺלָם גִּבְעוֺת Deu 33:15 (|| קֶדֶם הַרֲרֵי ראֹשׁ); ׳מ וּמְלֹאָהּ אֶרֶץ; plural abstract מ ׳מְּרִי (= excellent fruit) Son 4:13, Son 4:16; ׳מ alone = foregoing, Songs 7:14.

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Good8 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; 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.

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