מֹסָר
môçâr · H4561 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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teaching, instruction, correction, warning, punishment
The causative action by which deities offer mainly verbal instruction to humans, occasionally with physical punishment, given because of or to prevent misbehavior and aimed to teach the receiver, and sometimes others, wisdom and good behavior
ExamplesJob 33:16 Then He opens the ears of people, And horrifies them with warnings,
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
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הֶםtheir 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 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.
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Near synonyms 2 words
- תּוֹרָה tôwrâh · H8451 · teaching, instruction, ruling
- תּוֹרָה (torah) shares the semantic field of instruction and teaching, though it often carries more authoritative or divine connotations. Both terms can denote teaching or instruction that guides conduct, making them near synonyms in instructional contexts.
- תּוֹכֵחָה tôwkêchâh · H8433 · arguments, reproof, punishment
- תּוֹכַחַת overlaps with מֹסָר in the sense of corrective instruction or reproof. Both belong to the wisdom literature vocabulary of instruction that corrects and disciplines, though תּוֹכַחַת emphasizes the corrective rebuke aspect more explicitly.
In the other Testament 1 word
- νουθεσία nouthesía · G3559 · to instruct, to teach, instruction
- νουθεσία denotes instruction with an emphasis on admonition or warning, overlapping with the corrective/instructional sense of מֹסָר. It appears in contexts of moral and spiritual training, making it a viable Greek equivalent for instruction terminology.
Semantic domains 1 entry
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4561. mosar or musar [מֹסָר] see מוּסָר. above יָע see below יעה; יַעְבֵּץ see below עבץ.
or musar [מֹסָר] see מוּסָר. above
יָע see below יעה; יַעְבֵּץ see below עבץ.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
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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