מַחְמֻד
machmud · H4262 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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desire
Something that is the object of someone's desire, because of its quality or value
ExamplesLamentations 1:7 In the days of her affliction and homelessness Jerusalem remembers all her treasures That were hers since the days of old, When her people fell into the hand of the adversary And no one helped her. The adversaries saw her, They laughed at her ruin.
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
- הּher 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הָיָהto be, to become 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- זָכַרto remember 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 1 word
- תַּאֲוָה taʼăvâh · H8378 · craving, desire, longing
- Both מַחְמֻד (machmud, H4262) (“pleasant thing”) and תַּאֲוָה (taʼăvâh, H8378) (“dainty, desire, pleasant”) denote pleasant or desirable things, overlapping in desirability and pleasantness; the further sense of תַּאֲוָה related to hunger reflects its broader range.
Semantic domains 1 entry
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- מַחְמֻד, occurring once in Lamentations 1:7, names a desirable or precious possession lost in Jerusalem's downfall, the object of longing for what once was.
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4262. machmud or machmod [מַחְמֹד] noun [masculine] desirable, precious thing; —…
or machmod [מַחְמֹד] noun [masculine] desirable, precious thing; — מַחֲמֻדֶיהָ Lam 1:7, מַחֲמוֺדֵיהֶם Lam 1:11 Kt (Qr מַחֲמַדֵּיהֶם). Perhaps ׳מַחֲמַדּ to be read in both; compare Sta§ 273 a.
I. חמה (√ of following; compare Arabic protect, guard, RSK 136 LagBN 156; DlPr 91; BAS ii. 43 compare an Assyrian ê mû, surround, guard, compare Modern Syriac id.; Ethiopic III. 1 means contract affinity, be joined by affinity, probably denominative)
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
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