מַדְקָרָה
madqârâh · H4094 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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stab, thrust
Causative action by which humans thrust violently against other humans with a sharp weapon, with the aim of wounding them or ending their lives
ExamplesProverbs 12:18 There is one who speaks rashly like the thrusts of a sword, But the tongue of the wise brings healing.
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
- חֶרֶבsword 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- כlike/as 1
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 2 words
- מַכָּה makkâh · H4347 · stroke, lash, stripe
- Common Hebrew noun denoting a wound or blow that inflicts injury, semantically overlapping with the result or effect of piercing, though מַכָּה is broader and not limited to piercing wounds specifically.
- פֶּצַע petsaʻ · H6482 · bruise, wound
- Hebrew noun for a wound or injury, semantically related to the damage caused by piercing, though it encompasses a broader range of injuries including bruises and not exclusively piercing wounds.
Contrasting words 1 word
- מַרְפֵּא marpêʼ · H4832 · healing, to heal, to restore
- Hebrew noun meaning healing or cure, the lexical opposite of a piercing wound—one causes injury, the other restores health.
Semantic domains 1 entry
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- מַדְקָרָה denotes a piercing, as reflected in its gloss 'piercing' used in Proverbs 12:18's "there is one who speaks rashly like the thrusts of a sword," tying the word to a stabbing or piercing blow.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4094. madqarah [מַדְקָרָה] noun feminine piercing, stab, thrust, only plural construct…
[מַדְקָרָה] noun feminine piercing, stab, thrust, only plural construct חָ֑רֶב כְּמַדְקְרוֺת Pro 12:18 like thrusts of a sword, simile of rash speaking.
דַּר see דרר.
דֹּר see דור.
דרא (√ of following compare Arabic repel).
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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