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מוֹשְׁכָה

môwshᵉkâh · H4189 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. cords

    Literally: cords; hence: the unseen cords that hold the stars in a constellation together

    Examples

    Job 38:31 “Can you tie up the chains of the Pleiades, Or untie the cords of Orion?

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

What is done to itIt is the object

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 1 entry
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מוֹשְׁכָה, occurring once in Job 38:31 of the "cords" or "bands" of the Pleiades, denotes a binding cord that attaches or holds things together.
Word family 3 words

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

מָשַׁךְ mâshak · H4900 · to be tall, to go, to march · 36×מֶשֶׁךְ meshek · H4901 · pouch, bag · 2×מוֹשְׁכָהmôwshᵉkâh · H4189
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4189. moshekah or mosheketh [משֶׁ֫כֶת] noun feminine cord; — only plural construct…
H4189. moshekah
or mosheketh [משֶׁ֫כֶת] noun feminine cord; — only plural construct כְּסִיל משְׁכוֺת Job 38:31 the cords of Orion, i.e. probably those by which (according to some legend) he is dragged along in the sky (compare Di).
מִשְׁכָּב see שׁכב. מִשְׁכָּן see שׁכן.

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

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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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