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title: מְבוּכָה — confusion · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מְבוּכָה (3998), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: confusion. BDB 1906: n.f. confusion, confounding. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מְבוּכָה

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«מְבוּכָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **confusion** — 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:** 2 times · **Key:** 3998 · **BDB:** מִבוּכָה

### Glosses

confusion (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

confusion [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/3998/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. confusion, confounding [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/3998/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. confusion, confounding, Is 22:5 יוֹם מְהוּמָה וּמְבוּסָה וּמְבוּכָה a day of consternation and down-treading and confusion; Mi 7:4 עַתָּה תִּהְיֶה מְבוּכָתָם now shall be their confusion.

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Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מְבוּכָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/3998/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Micah 7:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.7.4/)

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טוֹבָ֣ם כְּחֵ֔דֶק יָשָׁ֖ר מִמְּסוּכָ֑ה י֤וֹם מְצַפֶּ֙יךָ֙ פְּקֻדָּתְךָ֣ בָ֔אָה עַתָּ֥ה תִהְיֶ֖ה מְבוּכָתָֽם׃

*Word for word:* their.good person \[is\].like a.thorn-bush an.upright.\[person\] more than.a.thorn.hedge the.day of your.watchmen punishment your it.has.come now it.will.be confusion their

*JPS 1917:* The best of them is as a brier; the most upright is worse than a thorn hedge; the day of thy watchmen, even thy visitation, is come; now shall be their perplexity.

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[Isaiah 22:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.22.5/)

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כִּ֣י יוֹם֩ מְהוּמָ֨ה וּמְבוּסָ֜ה וּמְבוּכָ֗ה לַֽאדֹנָ֧י יְהוִ֛ה צְבָא֖וֹת בְּגֵ֣יא חִזָּי֑וֹן מְקַרְקַ֥ר קִ֖ר וְשׁ֥וֹעַ אֶל־הָהָֽר׃

*Word for word:* (dm) a.day of.panic and trampling and confusion \[belongs\].to \[the\] Lord Yahweh of.hosts in.\[the\] valley of.vision breaking.down a.wall and crying.out to the mountain

*JPS 1917:* For it is a day of trouble, and of trampling, and of perplexity, from the Lord, the GOD of hosts, in the Valley of Vision; Kir shouting, and Shoa at the mount.

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