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title: מְאוּרָה — light-hole · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מְאוּרָה (3975), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: light-hole. BDB 1906: n.f. light-hole. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מְאוּרָה

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«מְאוּרָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **light-hole** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 3975 · **BDB:** מְאוּרָה

### Glosses

\[the\].nest (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

light-hole [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/3975/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. light-hole [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/3975/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. light-hole—only cstr. מְאוּרַת—= den of great viper Is 11:8, cf. מָאוֹר Mish. Ohaloth 13:1 (others eye-ball 𝔗 Ew De Di).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מְאוּרָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/3975/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 11:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.11.8/)

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וְשִֽׁעֲשַׁ֥ע יוֹנֵ֖ק עַל־חֻ֣ר פָּ֑תֶן וְעַל֙ מְאוּרַ֣ת צִפְעוֹנִ֔י גָּמ֖וּל יָד֥וֹ הָדָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.will.play a.sucking.child over \[the\].hole of.a.cobra and over \[the\].nest of.a.viper a.weaned.\[child\] hand his he.will.put.out

*JPS 1917:* And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the basilisk's den.

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