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title: מְגִנָּה — covering · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מְגִנָּה (4044), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: covering. BDB 1906: n.f. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מְגִנָּה

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«מְגִנָּה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **covering** — 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:** 4044 · **BDB:** מְגִנָּה

### Glosses

shamelessness (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

covering [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4044/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4044/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. covering, מְגִנַּת־לֵב La 3:65 covering of heart, i.e. a hard shell about the heart = obstinacy, so Ges (cf. Qor 6:25 وَجَعَلْنَا عَلَى قُلُوبِهِم أَكِنَّةً) RV; or, covering of the understanding, blindness of heart, so Ew Ke Näg Che.

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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 (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מְגִנָּה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4044/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Lamentations 3:65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.3.65/)

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תִּתֵּ֤ן לָהֶם֙ מְגִנַּת־לֵ֔ב תַּאֲלָֽתְךָ֖ לָהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* you.will.give to them shamelessness of.heart curse your \[may it.belong\].to.them

*JPS 1917:* Thou wilt give them hardness of heart, Thy curse unto them.

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