מָשָׁה
mâshâh · H4871 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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to draw out
Causative action by which humans or deities pull or drag (other) humans out of a certain location
ExamplesExodus 2:10 And the child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter and he became her son. And she named him Moses, and said, “Because I drew him out of the water.”
2 Samuel 22:17 “He sent from on high, He took me; He drew me out of many waters.
Psalm 18:16 He sent from on high, He took me; He drew me out of many waters.
How it’s used In 3 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
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- Not stated: he, she or it 2
- Not stated: I 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- נִיme 2
- וֹhim 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
3 occurrences in 1 groups
- מִןfrom+ מַיִםwater 3
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 1 word
- שָׁלַף shâlaph · H8025 · to pull out, to draw, swordsman
- Hebrew verb meaning to draw out or pull out, frequently used of drawing a sword from its sheath. Shares the fundamental sense of extraction by pulling, making it a close synonym to מָשָׁה in the 'draw out' semantic field.
In the other Testament 2 words
- ἀνασπάω anaspáō · G385 · to pull up, to draw up
- Greek verb meaning to draw up or pull up, often used in contexts of drawing/pulling objects or persons upward or out (e.g., drawing up nets, pulling someone up). Matches the core sense of Hebrew מָשָׁה 'draw out' as a translation equivalent.
- ἐξάγω exágō · G1806 · to lead out, to bring forth
- Greek verb meaning to bring or lead out, commonly used for extraction or removal from a place. Can serve as a translation equivalent for the 'draw out' sense of מָשָׁה, though ἐξάγω typically emphasizes leading/bringing rather than the physical pulling action.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Move002002001012
- The word denotes drawing something out, an act of physical movement, as drawing an object or person out of water.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4871. mashah [מָשָׁה] verb draw (Arabic cleanse uterus of camel, Aramaic clean, stroke,…
[מָשָׁה] verb draw (Arabic cleanse uterus of camel, Aramaic clean, stroke, the face, etc.; מְשָׁא (Talmud) wash the hands; Zinjirli משׂי[י] perhaps wash oneself, DHMSendsch. 60); —
Qal Perfect suffix מְשִׁיתִהוּ מִןהַֿמַּיִם Exo 2:10 out of the water I drew him (used to explain משֶׁה, but see this below)
Hiph`il Imperfect suffix =
Qal, figurative רַבִּים מִמַיִם יַמְשֵׁנִי 2Sa 22:17 = Psa 18:7 (subject ׳י).
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
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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