מָרַק
mâraq · H4838 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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to scour
Causative action by which someone removes dirt from an object by rubbing it vigorously with a piece of cloth or something else
ExamplesLeviticus 6:28 ‘Also the earthenware vessel in which it was boiled shall be broken; and if it was boiled in a bronze vessel, then it shall be scoured and rinsed in water.
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to polish
Literally: to rub; hence: causative action by which someone causes a metal object to reflect light by rubbing it vigorously
Examples2 Chronicles 4:16 The pails, the shovels, the forks, and all its utensils, Huram-abi made of polished bronze for King Solomon, for the house of the LORD.
Jeremiah 46:4 “Harness the horses, And mount the steeds, Take your stand with helmets on! Polish the spears, Put on the coats of armor!
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
Who or what does itSubject
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- Not stated: you (more than one) 1
- Not stated: he, she or it 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- רֹמַחspear 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
- כָּבַס kâbaç · H3526 · to wash oneself, to wash
- Both words denote cleaning actions (washing, scouring) that overlap in sense, describing purification or cleansing.
- בָּרַר bârar · H1305 · to test, to select, to purge
- Both words denote cleaning and polishing actions that make something clean and bright. מָרַק (mâraq, H4838) is narrower, focused on scouring or furbishing, while בָּרַר (bârar, H1305) has a broader range that includes figurative purification.
- דּוּחַ dûwach · H1740 · to wash, to cleanse
- Both terms denote cleaning or purging actions. One emphasizes washing or purging out impurities, the other scouring or polishing to brightness — overlapping senses of removing dirt or impurity through scrubbing or washing.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Clean002001001011
- The word denotes scouring, an act of cleaning a surface to remove impurity.
- Shine002001001053
- The word denotes furbishing or making bright, giving a polished, shining finish.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4838. maraq I. [מָרַק] verb scour, polish (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic מְרַק; compare…
I. [מָרַק] verb scour, polish (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic מְרַק; compare Arabic scrape off wool from a skin); —
Qal Imperative הָֽרְמָחִים מִרְקוּ Jer 46:4 polish the lances! Passive participle מָרוּק2Ch 4:16 polished, of bronze utensils of temple (= מְמוֺרָט 1Ki 7:45).
Hiph`il Imperfect3feminine singular חַמְרִיק only Pro 20:30 Kt, figurative, in clause ת מֶּצַע ׳חַבֻּרוֺת בְּרָ֑ע blows that cut in, cleanse away evil (compare De Now Wild VB); Qr תַּמְרוּק i.e. (are) a cleaning. (ᵐ5 συναντᾷ κακοῖς, whence Gr תַּקְדִּים, Frankenb. תִּקְרֶינָה, but improbable).
Pu`al Perfect וּמֹרַק consecutive Lev 6:21 be well scoured, of bronze vessel (|| בַּמָּ֑יִם וְשֻׁטַּף).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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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