Word

מִגְרָפָה

migrâphâh · H4053 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. clod

    Meaning unsure; possibly: a lump of earth or clay

    Examples

    Joel 1:17 The seeds have dried up under their shovels; The storehouses have become desolate, The grain silos are ruined, Because the grain has dried up.

How it’s used In 2 roles

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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.

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Near synonyms 1 word
רֶגֶב regeb · H7263 · clod
Both are distinct Hebrew words for the same concrete object, a lump of earth. Both are rare concrete nouns, occurring once and twice respectively.
Semantic domains 1 entry
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מִגְרָפָה denotes a clod of earth, as reflected in its gloss 'clod' used in Joel 1:17's "the seeds shrivel under their clods," placing it among terms for dust or crumbled earth.
Word family 3 words

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

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4053. megraphah [מֶגְרָפָה] noun feminine shovel (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic…
H4053. megraphah
[מֶגְרָפָה] noun feminine shovel (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic מַגְרוֺפִיתָא; Arabic (see Lane)) only plural מֶגְרְפֹתֵיהֶם Joe 1:17 (Thes clods, after Jewish interpreters, so AV RV, compare however MeiJoel 100 f; ᵐ5 Me ארותיהם their cribs, of cattle; meaning of clause dubious).

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

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

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