Word

מְכוּרָה

mᵉkûwrâh · H4351 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences

See all 3 in Search

Meanings

  1. origin

    The place where one is originally from

    Examples

    Ezekiel 16:3 and say, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says to Jerusalem: “Your origin and your birth are from the land of the Canaanite; your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.

    Ezekiel 21:30 ‘Return it to its sheath. In the place where you were created, in the land of your origin, I will judge you.

    Ezekiel 29:14 “And I will restore the fortunes of Egypt and bring them back to the land of Pathros, to the land of their origin, and there they will be a lowly kingdom.

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

3 occurrences in 2 groups

What it is said to bePredicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

2 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.

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.

Semantic domains 1 entry
Exist002002002005
מְכוּרָה denotes one's origin or coming into being, as in Ezekiel's indictment of Jerusalem, "your origin and your birth are from the land of the Canaanite" (Ezekiel 16:3), and Egypt's promised return "to the land of their origin" (Ezekiel 29:14).
Word family 5 words

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

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4351. mekurah or mekorah [מְכוּרָה מְכֹרָה,] noun feminine origin (i.e. place of digging…
H4351. mekurah
or mekorah [מְכוּרָה מְכֹרָה,] noun feminine origin (i.e. place of digging out?) — singular suffix מְכוּרָתָם אֶרֶץ Eze 29:14; of a people, persons: plural suffix מְכֻרוֺתַיִךְ בְּאֶרֶץ Ezekiel 21:35 (|| נִבְרֵאת אֲשֶׁר בִּמְקוֺם); of Jerusalem, הַכְּנַעֲנִי מֵאֶרֶץ וּמֹלְדֹתַיִךְ מְכֹדֹתַיִךְ Eze 16:3.

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

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

New American Standard Bible Copyright © 1960, 1971, 1977, 1995, 2020 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. All rights reserved. For Permission to Quote Information visit http://www.lockman.org.