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title: מָדוּ — garment · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מָדוּ (4063), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: garment. BDB 1906: n.m. garment. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מָדוּ

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«מָדוּ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **garment** — 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:** 4063 · **BDB:** מָ֫דוּ

### Glosses

robes (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

garment [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4063/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. garment [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4063/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** ii. \[מַדְוֶה\] n.m. garment;—pl. sf. מַדְוֵיהֶם 2 S 10:4 = 1 Ch 19:4.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מָדוּ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4063/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Chronicles 19:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.19.4/)

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וַיִּקַּ֨ח חָנ֜וּן אֶת־עַבְדֵ֤י דָוִיד֙ וַֽיְגַלְּחֵ֔ם וַיִּכְרֹ֧ת אֶת־מַדְוֵיהֶ֛ם בַּחֵ֖צִי עַד־הַמִּפְשָׂעָ֑ה וַֽיְשַׁלְּחֵֽם׃

*Word for word:* and he.took Hanun (et) the.servants of.David and he shaved.them and he.cut.off (et) robes their in the middle to the buttock\[s\] and he sent.them.away

*JPS 1917:* So Hanun took David's servants, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their hips, and sent them away.

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[2 Samuel 10:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.10.4/)

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וַיִּקַּ֨ח חָנ֜וּן אֶת־עַבְדֵ֣י דָוִ֗ד וַיְגַלַּח֙ אֶת־חֲצִ֣י זְקָנָ֔ם וַיִּכְרֹ֧ת אֶת־מַדְוֵיהֶ֛ם בַּחֵ֖צִי עַ֣ד שְׁתֽוֹתֵיהֶ֑ם וַֽיְשַׁלְּחֵֽם׃

*Word for word:* and he.took Hanun (et) the.servants of.David and he.shaved (et) (the).half their.beard their and he.cut.off (et) robes their in the middle to buttocks their and he sent.them.away

*JPS 1917:* So Hanun took David's servants, and shaved off the one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away.

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