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title: מַדְקָרָה — piercing · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מַדְקָרָה (4094), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: piercing. BDB 1906: n.f. piercing, stab, thrust. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מַדְקָרָה

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«מַדְקָרָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **piercing** — 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:** 4094 · **BDB:** מַדְקָרָה

### Glosses

thrusts (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

piercing [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4094/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. piercing, stab, thrust [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4094/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. piercing, stab, thrust, only pl. cstr. כְּמַדְקְרוֹת חָ֑רֶב Pr 12:18 like thrusts of a sword, sim. of rash speaking.

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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 «מַדְקָרָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4094/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Proverbs 12:18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.12.18/)

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יֵ֣שׁ בּ֭וֹטֶהכְּמַדְקְר֣וֹת חָ֑רֶב וּלְשׁ֖וֹן חֲכָמִ֣ים מַרְפֵּֽא׃

*Word for word:* there.\[is\] \[one.who\].speaks.rashly like thrusts of.a.sword and.\[the\] tongue of.wise.\[people\] \[is\].healing

*JPS 1917:* There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword; but the tongue of the wise is health.

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