מוֹצָאָה
môwtsâʼâh · H4163 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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origin
Literally: goings out; hence: a reference to the moment that someone's family line begins
ExamplesMicah 5:2 “But as for you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, Too little to be among the clans of Judah, From you One will come forth for Me to be ruler in Israel. His times of coming forth are from long ago, From the days of eternity.”
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latrine
Literally: going out; hence: a communal toilet
Examples2 Kings 10:27 They also tore down the memorial stone of Baal and tore down the house of Baal, and made it a latrine as it is to this day.
How it’s used In 3 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
- הוּhis 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- קֶדֶםeast, ancient time 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לto/for 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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Contrasting words 1 word
- מָבוֹא mâbôwʼ · H3996 · coming, setting of the sun
- Lexical opposite to the 'going forth' sense: מָבוֹא (entrance/coming in) vs. מוֹצָאָה (exit/going out) form a natural entry/exit pair in spatial and temporal contexts.
In the other Testament 2 words
- ἀφεδρών aphedrṓn · G856 · latrine, toilet
- Greek equivalent for the 'draught house' sense (latrine/toilet facility), used in Mark 7:19 and Matthew 15:17 in parallel contexts to 2 Kings 10:27 where מוֹצָאָה (môwtsâʼâh, H4163) appears.
- ἔξοδος éxodos · G1841 · departure, the Exodus, the departure (of Israel from Egypt)
- Greek equivalent for the 'going forth' sense, sharing the semantic field of egress/departure from a place.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Time002002002010
- מוֹצָאָה carries a sense tied to 'going forth,' reflected in its gloss 'going forth,' extending the related noun's departure sense to a point in time when something goes out.
- Constructions001003002
- The word's other attested sense, 'draught house,' denotes a latrine or privy structure, as in 2 Kings 10:27's Jehu's men who "made it a latrine," placing it among architectural structures.
Word family 8 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4163. motsaah [מוֺצָאָה] noun feminine only plural: a. Mic 5:1 מוֺצָאוֺתָיו (compare…
[מוֺצָאָה] noun feminine only plural:
a. Mic 5:1 מוֺצָאוֺתָיו (compare future ruler out of Bethlehem), his origin.
b. 2Ki 10:27 Qr מוֺצָאוֺת places of going out to, i.e. a privy (compare Arabic ; German Abtritt), euphemistically for Kt מַחֲרָאוֺת.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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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