מִנְהָרָה
minhârâh · H4492 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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hollow place
Exact meaning unknown; possibly: place in the mountains that has been hollowed out by water, used as a place to hide
ExamplesJudges 6:2 The power of Midian prevailed against Israel. Because of Midian the sons of Israel made for themselves the dens which were in the mountains and the caves and the strongholds.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הַרmountain 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עָשָׂהto do, to make 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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Semantic domains 1 entry
- Landforms001002003
- מִנְהָרָה denotes a den or hollow, a natural cave-like feature of the terrain.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4492. minharah [מִנְהָרָה] noun feminine dub., only plural בֶּהָרִים אֲשֶׁר…
[מִנְהָרָה] noun feminine dub., only plural בֶּהָרִים אֲשֶׁר הַמִּנְהָרוֺת Jdg 6:2 (+ הַמְּעָרוֺת caves, הַמְּצָדוֺת strong-hold) — (clearly, si vera lectio, from a check נהר, but with what meaning? SchuJob 49 compare Arabic , [which means a place hollowed out by water], and rend. crevices, ravines, so Thes and others; Ra Ki WetzstHauran, 46 think of caves with a light-opening; R. Levi ben Gerson beacons, i.e. towers for fire-signals, GFM; but II. נהר late in Hebrew; ᵐ5 τρυμαλίας, ᵑ9 antra; Bu thinks הַמְּעָרוֺת a gloss explaining ׳הַמִּנ).
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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