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title: מוּךְ — be low · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מוּךְ (4134), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 5 times: be low. BDB 1906: vb. be low, depressed, grow poor. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מוּךְ

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«מוּךְ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **be low** — 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:** 5 times · **Key:** 4134 · **BDB:** מוּךְ

### Glosses

he.will.become.impoverished (4); \[is.too\].impoverished (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

be low [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4134/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. be low, depressed, grow poor [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4134/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. be low, depressed, grow poor (NH id., Niph.; Aramaic מוּךְ, sink or bend down; cf. מָכַךְ, Syriac ܡܰܟ, ܡܟܶܟ, be brought low, humble);— Pf. consec. וּמָךְ Lv 27:8 (P); Impf. יָמוּךְ Lv 25:25, 35, 39 (all H); Pt. מָךְ Lv 25:47 (P): all of impoverished Israelites.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 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 «מוּךְ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4134/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Leviticus 25:39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.25.39/)

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וְכִֽי־יָמ֥וּךְ אָחִ֛יךָ עִמָּ֖ךְ וְנִמְכַּר־לָ֑ךְ לֹא־תַעֲבֹ֥ד בּ֖וֹ עֲבֹ֥דַת עָֽבֶד׃

*Word for word:* and (dm) he.will.become.impoverished brother your with you and he.will.sell.himself to you not you.will.labor by him \[the\].labor of.a.slave

*JPS 1917:* And if thy brother be waxen poor with thee, and sell himself unto thee, thou shalt not make him to serve as a bondservant.

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[Leviticus 25:35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.25.35/)

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וְכִֽי־יָמ֣וּךְ אָחִ֔יךָ וּמָ֥טָה יָד֖וֹ עִמָּ֑ךְ וְהֶֽחֱזַ֣קְתָּ בּ֔וֹ גֵּ֧ר וְתוֹשָׁ֛ב וָחַ֖י עִמָּֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* and (dm) he.will.become.impoverished brother your and it.will.slip hand his with you and you.will.strengthen (in) him a.sojourner and a.resident.alien and he.will.live with you

*JPS 1917:* And if thy brother be waxen poor, and his means fail with thee; then thou shalt uphold him: as a stranger and a settler shall he live with thee.

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