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מוֹרָד

môwrâd · H4174 · Hebrew · 5 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. descent, slope

    Side of mountain or hill

    Examples

    Joshua 7:5 And the men of Ai struck and killed about thirty-six of their men, and pursued them from the gate as far as Shebarim and struck them on the mountainside; and the hearts of the people melted and became like water.

    Joshua 10:11 And as they fled from Israel, while they were at the descent of Beth-horon, the LORD hurled large stones from heaven on them as far as Azekah, and they died; there were more who died from the hailstones than those whom the sons of Israel killed with the sword.

    Jeremiah 48:5 “For they will go up by the ascent of Luhith With continual weeping; For at the descent of Horonaim They have heard the anguished cry of destruction.

  2. beveled work, relief

    Literally: sloping work; hence, possibly: structure decorated with a design that stands out from the surface

    Examples

    1 Kings 7:29 and on the borders which were between the crossbars were lions, oxen, and cherubim; and on the crossbars there was a pedestal above, and beneath the lions and oxen were wreaths of hanging work.

How it’s used In 4 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

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

4 occurrences in 1 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

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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Semantic domains 2 entries
Landforms001002003
מוֹרָד most often denotes a physical slope or descent in the terrain, such as the steep descent of a hillside or road.
Shape002001001052
The word also describes the downward-sloping shape or contour of such a descent, distinct from the landform itself.
Word family 2 words

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

יָרַד yârad · H3381 · to go down, to come down, to fall down · 380×מוֹרָדmôwrâd · H4174
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4174. morad מוֺרָד noun [masculine] descent, slope; absolute ׳מו Mic 1:4 Mic 1:2t.;…
H4174. morad
מוֺרָד noun [masculine] descent, slope; absolute ׳מו Mic 1:4 Mic 1:2t.; construct מוֺרַד Jos 10:11; Jer 48:5; —
1 descent, slope, as designation of locality Jos 7:5; Jos 10:11 (בֵּיתחֿוֺרֹן ׳בְּמ; both J E); ׳בְּמ חֹרוֺנַיִם Jer 48:5; + בַּמּוֺרָד חֹרֹנַיִם insert in 2Sa 13:34 ᵐ5 We Dr; in General בְּמוֺרָד מֻגָּרִים כְּמַיִם Mic 1:4.
2 מוֺרָ֑ד מַעֲשֵׂה 1Ki 7:29 work of descent, i.e. hanging-work (VB).

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

Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Landforms4 occurrencesShape1 occurrence

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

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