מַצְהָלָה
matshâlâh · H4684 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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neighing
Action by which a horse utters a prolonged cry; sometimes associated with a man's desire for another man's wife
ExamplesJeremiah 8:16 From Dan there is heard the snorting of his horses; At the sound of the neighing of his stallions The whole land quakes; For they come and devour the land and its fullness, The city and its inhabitants.
Jeremiah 13:27 “As for your adulteries and your lustful neighings, The outrageous sin of your prostitution On the hills in the field, I have seen your abominations. Woe to you, Jerusalem! How long will you remain unclean?”
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
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- אַבִּירmighty one 1
- ךְyour 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- קוֹלvoice, sound 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
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- The word denotes the neighing of horses, a vivid auditory image used by Jeremiah both literally of war-horses and figuratively of unrestrained lust.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4684. mitshalah [מִצְהָלָה] noun feminine neighing; — plural construct אַבִּירָיוֺ…
[מִצְהָלָה] noun feminine neighing; — plural construct אַבִּירָיוֺ מִצְהֲלוֺת קוֺל Jer 8:16 (|| סוּסָיוֺ נַחְרַת); suffix מִצְהֲלוֺתַיִךְ Jer 13:27 of idolatrous Judah, under figure of mare desiring stallion (|| זְנוּתֵךְ זִמַּת נִאֻפַיִךְ,).
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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