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title: מוֹט — shaking · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מוֹט (4132), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 4 times: shaking. BDB 1906: shaking, pole, bar. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מוֹט

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«מוֹט» in the Tanakh dictionary: **shaking** — 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:** 4132 · **BDB:** מוֹט²

### Glosses

frame (2); pole (1); yoke-bar (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

shaking [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4132/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

shaking, pole, bar [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4132/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] shaking, pole, bar of yoke;—abs. מ׳ Nu 4:10 + 5 times; sf. מֹטֵ֫הוּ Na 1:13;— a shaking, tottering (c. neg., of security) לֹא־יִתֵּן מ׳ לַצַּדִּיק ψ 55:23; לֹא נָתַן לַמּ׳ רַגְלֵנוּ ψ 66:9, cf. 121:3. pole, or bar for carrying (named from springing motion) Nu 4:10, 12 cf. especially 13:23. bar of yoke Na 1:13 (אֶשְׁבֹּר מֹטֵהוּ מֵעָלַיִךְ), fig. of oppression. Cf. following.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מוֹט» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4132/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Nahum 1:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/NAM.1.13/)

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וְעַתָּ֕ה אֶשְׁבֹּ֥ר מֹטֵ֖הוּ מֵֽעָלָ֑יִךְ וּמוֹסְרֹתַ֖יִךְ אֲנַתֵּֽק׃

*Word for word:* and now I.will.break yoke-bar his from on you and fetters your I.will.tear.apart

*JPS 1917:* And now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds in sunder.

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[Numbers 4:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.4.10/)

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וְנָתְנ֤וּ אֹתָהּ֙ וְאֶת־כָּל־כֵּלֶ֔יהָ אֶל־מִכְסֵ֖ה ע֣וֹר תָּ֑חַשׁ וְנָתְנ֖וּ עַל־הַמּֽוֹט׃

*Word for word:* and they.will.put it and (et) all articles its into a.covering of.skin of.dolphin and they.will.put.\[it\] on the.carrying frame

*JPS 1917:* And they shall put it and all the vessels thereof within a covering of sealskin, and shall put it upon a bar.

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