מִמְשָׁק
mimshâq · H4476 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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possession
Meaning unsure; possibly: state in which a plant is growing in such a large quantity in a certain area that it seems as if the plant is in control
ExamplesZephaniah 2:9 “Therefore, as I live,” declares the LORD of armies, The God of Israel, “Moab will assuredly be like Sodom, And the sons of Ammon like Gomorrah— Ground overgrown with weeds and full of salt mines, And a permanent desolation. The remnant of My people will plunder them, And the remainder of My nation will inherit them.”
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
- חָרוּלweeds 1
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Semantic domains 2 entries
- Control002003002007
- מִמְשָׁק describes a place given over to another's possession, as in Zephaniah's oracle that Moab and Ammon will become "a place possessed" by weeds and salt mines under a new controlling claim.
- Quantity002001001046
- מִמְשָׁק's traditional gloss "breeding" suggests a sense of multiplying or increasing possession, though the sampled citation illustrates the possession sense more directly than any quantity-increase nuance.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4476. mimshaq [מִמְשָׁק] noun [masculine] possession (? so RV), perhaps better place of…
[מִמְשָׁק] noun [masculine] possession (? so RV), perhaps better place of possession, place possessed by; only construct חָרוּל מִמְשַׁק Zep 2:9 a place possessed by chickpeas (> AV breeding of nettles), ᵐ5 Δαηασκος. Word very dubious (We GASm); text probably corrupt; SchwZAW x. 1890, 188 conjecture meaning place of growth; Gr (so Now) proposes קִמּוֺשׂ, or קִמְּשׂנִים.
מַשָּׁק see שׁקק. מַשְׁקֶה see שׁקה.
מִשְׁקֹ֫לֶת מִשְׁקֶ֫לֶת, מִשְׁקָל, מִשְׁקוֺל, see שׁקל.
מַשְׁקוֺף see שׁקף. [מִשְׁקָע] see שׁקע.
מִשְׁרָה see שׁרה.
מֵשָׁרִים see מֵישָׁרִים below ישׁר.
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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