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title: מָאַר — excite hostility · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מָאַר (3992), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 4 times: excite hostility. BDB 1906: vb. prick, pain. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מָאַר

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«מָאַר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **excite hostility** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 4 times · **Key:** 3992 · **BDB:** מָאַר

### Glosses

malignant (3); \[which\].pricks (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

excite hostility [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/3992/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. prick, pain [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/3992/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. (cf. Arabic مَأَرَ excite hostility, irritate, مَىِٔرَ break open, of a wound);— prick, pain Pt. מַמְאִיר Ez 28:24; f. מַמְאֶ֫רֶת Lv 13:51 + 2 times;—of thorn סִלּוֹן מ׳ Ez 28:24 (fig. of oppressors of Isr., ‖ קוֹץ מַכְאִב); elsewhere of leprosy (צָרַעַת) = malignant? Lv 13:51, 52; 14:44 (all P; but Sam. in all these has מרראת, √ מרא = מרה be obstinate, cf. Thes816 b Di).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 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 «מָאַר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/3992/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Leviticus 14:44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.14.44/)

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וּבָא֙ הַכֹּהֵ֔ן וְרָאָ֕ה וְהִנֵּ֛ה פָּשָׂ֥ה הַנֶּ֖גַע בַּבָּ֑יִת צָרַ֨עַת מַמְאֶ֥רֶת הִ֛וא בַּבַּ֖יִת טָמֵ֥א הֽוּא׃

*Word for word:* and he.will.come the priest and he.will.see and there! it.has.spread the plague in the house \[is\].a.serious.disease malignant it in the house \[is\].unclean it

*JPS 1917:* then the priest shall come in and look; and, behold, if the plague be spread in the house, it is a malignant leprosy in the house: it is unclean.

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[Ezekiel 28:24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.28.24/)

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וְלֹֽא־יִהְיֶ֨ה ע֜וֹד לְבֵ֣ית יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל סִלּ֤וֹן מַמְאִיר֙ וְק֣וֹץ מַכְאִ֔ב מִכֹּל֙ סְבִ֣יבֹתָ֔ם הַשָּׁאטִ֖ים אוֹתָ֑ם וְיָ֣דְע֔וּ כִּ֥י אֲנִ֖י אֲדֹנָ֥י יְהוִֽה׃ס

*Word for word:* and not it.will.belong again to the.house of.Israel a.brier \[which\].pricks and a.thorn \[which\].causes.pain from all around them \[who\] despise them and they.will.know (dm).that I the\].Lord \[am Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* And there shall be no more a pricking brier unto the house of Israel, nor a piercing thorn of any that are round about them, that did have them in disdain; and they shall know that I am the Lord GOD.

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