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מַחְמָל

machmâl · H4263 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. object of affection

    Object for which one feels affection

    Examples

    Ezekiel 24:21 ‘Speak to the house of Israel, “This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I am about to profane My sanctuary, the pride of your power, that which is precious in your eyes and the longing of your soul; and your sons and your daughters whom you have left behind will fall by the sword.

How it’s used In 1 role

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

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
Love002001002018
מַחְמָל, occurring once in Ezekiel 24:21, names the object of tender affection or pity — Israel's sons and daughters, "the delight of your soul" — an object of compassionate love.
Word family 3 words

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

חָמַל châmal · H2550 · to be concerned for, to have pity on, to show mercy · 40×חֶמְלָה chemlâh · H2551 · compassion, mercy · 2×מַחְמָלmachmâl · H4263
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4263. machmal [מַחְמָל] noun [masculine] thing pitied, object of compassion, only…
H4263. machmal
[מַחְמָל] noun [masculine] thing pitied, object of compassion, only construct נַפְשְׁכֶם וּמַחְמַל עיניכם מַחְמַד Eze 24:21 object of your eyes' desire, and of your soul's compassion.

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Love1 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

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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