Word

מִכְמֶרֶת

mikmereth · H4365 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences

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Casting netNets10 verses

Meanings

casting net

Circular net with weights and a draw rope around its edge of roughly 6-7.5 meters in diameter; thrown from a boat or the shore in a circular motion so that it lands with the net fully spread out on the water; the weights carry it down, trapping fish underneath; then the fisherman uses the draw rope to close the net and pull it back to himself; associated with aggression and control

Examples
Isaiah 19:8 And the fishermen will grieve, And all those who cast a line into the Nile will mourn, And those who spread nets on the waters will dwindle away.
Habakkuk 1:15 The Chaldeans bring all of them up with a hook, Drag them away with their net, And gather them together in their fishing net. Therefore they rejoice and are joyful.
Habakkuk 1:16 Therefore they offer a sacrifice to their net And burn incense to their fishing net, Because through these things their catch is large, And their food is plentiful.

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

2 occurrences in 1 groups

הוּhis 2

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

פָּרַשׂto spread out 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 2 groups

בin/on/with 2
לto/for 2

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.

Near synonyms 2 words

רֶשֶׁת resheth · H7568 · net, mesh(work): Both words denote physical trapping or netting implements used for capture, as two distinct Hebrew words for overlapping fishing or hunting net concepts.
מָצוֹד mâtsôwd · H4685 · prey, victim, (trammel) net: מִכְמֶרֶת (mikmereth, H4365) is a fishing implement (drag/net), while מָצוֹד (mâtsôwd, H4685) has a much broader semantic range spanning fortifications, military strongholds, and trapping devices. The "net" sense overlap is real but represents only a narrow slice of מָצוֹד (mâtsôwd, H4685)'s meaning.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Traps001003001001018: מִכְמֶרֶת names a fishing drag-net, as in Habakkuk's image of the nations gathered up like fish "in their net" (Habakkuk 1:15-16), and Isaiah's fishermen who "spread a net" over the water (Isaiah 19:8).

Word family 5 words

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

כָּמַר kâmar · H3648 · to be hot, to be kindled · 4×כָּמָר kâmâr · H3649 · pagan priest · 3×מִכְמֶרֶתmikmereth · H4365מַכְמָר makmâr · H4364 · net · 2×כִּמְרִיר kimrîyr · H3650 · darkness, blackness · 1×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4365. mikmereth [מִכְמֶ֫רֶת] noun feminine net, fishing-net; singular suffix…

H4365. mikmereth
[מִכְמֶ֫רֶת] noun feminine net, fishing-net; singular suffix מִכְמַרְתּוֺ Hab 1:15 (|| חַכָּה, and חֵרֶם), Hab 1:16, both in figure of conquering Chaldeans.
מִכְמֹ֫רֶת noun feminine id.; מ ׳וּפֹרְשֵׂי עַלמְּֿנֵימּמַיִם Isa 19:8 (|| חַכָּה בַיְאוֺר מַשְׁלִיכֵי).

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Traps3 occurrences

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