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title: מוֹצָאָה — family descent · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מוֹצָאָה (4163), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: family descent. BDB 1906: n.f. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מוֹצָאָה

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«מוֹצָאָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **family descent** — 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:** 4163 · **BDB:** מוֹצָאָה

### Glosses

origins (1); outhouses (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

family descent [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4163/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4163/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. only pl.: Mi 5:1 מוֹצָאוֹתָיו (of future ruler out of Bethlehem), his origin. 2 K 10:27 Qr מוֹצָאוֹת places of going out to, i.e. a privy (cf. Arabic مَخْرَجٌ; Germ. Abtritt), euphemistically for Kt מַחֲרָאוֹת.

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מוֹצָאָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4163/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[2 Kings 10:27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.10.27/)

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וַֽיִּתְּצ֔וּ אֵ֖ת מַצְּבַ֣ת הַבָּ֑עַל וַֽיִּתְּצוּ֙ אֶת־בֵּ֣ית הַבַּ֔עַל וַיְשִׂמֻ֥הוּ לְמֽוֹצָא֖וֹת עַד־הַיּֽוֹם׃

*Word for word:* and they.pulled.down (et) the.sacred.pillar of.(the) Baal and they.pulled.down (et) the.house of.(the) Baal and they made.it (into) outhouses until this day

*JPS 1917:* And they broke down the pillar of Baal, and broke down the house of Baal, and made it a draught-house, unto this day.

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[Micah 5:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.5.1/)

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וְאַתָּ֞ה בֵּֽית־לֶ֣חֶםבֵּֽית־לֶ֣חֶם אֶפְרָ֗תָה צָעִיר֙ לִֽהְיוֹת֙ בְּאַלְפֵ֣י יְהוּדָ֔ה מִמְּךָ֙ לִ֣י יֵצֵ֔א לִֽהְי֥וֹת מוֹשֵׁ֖ל בְּיִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וּמוֹצָאֹתָ֥יו מִקֶּ֖דֶם מִימֵ֥י עוֹלָֽם׃

*Word for word:* and you O Bethlehem Ephrathah \[are\].insignificant to be among the.families of.Judah from you for me someone.will.go.out to be ruler over Israel and origins his \[are\].from antiquity from days of.antiquity

*JPS 1917:* But thou, Beth-lehem Ephrathah, which art little to be among the thousands of Judah, out of thee shall one come forth unto Me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth are from of old, from ancient days.

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