מַרְבֵּק
marbêq · H4770 · Hebrew · 4 occurrences
Thing
- Animal pen, stallAnimal husbandry11 verses
Meanings
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stall
A construction where domestic animals are kept permanently with the purpose of fattening them
Examples1 Samuel 28:24 Now the woman had a fattened calf in the house, and she quickly slaughtered it; then she took flour, kneaded it and baked unleavened bread from it.
Jeremiah 46:21 “Also her mercenaries in her midst Are like fattened calves, For they too have turned away and have fled together; They did not stand their ground. For the day of their disaster has come upon them, The time of their punishment.
Amos 6:4 Those who lie on beds of ivory, And lounge around on their couches, And eat lambs from the flock, And calves from the midst of the fattened cattle,
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
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
4 occurrences in 2 groups
- עֵגֶלmale calf 3
- תָּוֶךְmiddle 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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Near synonyms 3 words
- אֲוֵרָה ʼăvêrâh · H220 · animal pen, cattle pen
- Both words denote enclosures for housing livestock: אֲוֵרָה “cote” for animals, מַרְבֵּק “stall” for feeding or fattening.
- אֻרְוָה ʼurvâh · H723 · stall, animal pen, cattle pen
- Both terms denote a "stall," a structure for housing livestock — distinct Hebrew words for the same kind of structure.
- מִשְׁפָּת mishpâth · H4942 · sheep pen, sheepfold, saddlebasket
- Both words refer to structures that house animals, such as a stall or sheepfold.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Stalls001003002008
- The word denotes a stall for fattening livestock, directly named by its own gloss.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4770. marbeq מַרְבֵק noun [masculine] stall (literally tying-place); — מ מִתּוֺךְ…
מַרְבֵק noun [masculine] stall (literally tying-place); — מ מִתּוֺךְ ׳עֲגָלִים Amo 6:4 calves out of the stall (where they were fattened); ׳עֵגֶלמֿ 1Sa 28:24 i.e. a stall-fed, fatted, calf; so מ ׳כְּעֶנְלֵי Malachi 3:20 (simile of prosperity), Jer 46:21 (simile of well-fed and arrogant mercenaries).
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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