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title: מוּצָק — a casting · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מוּצָק (4165), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: a casting. BDB 1906: n.m. casting. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מוּצָק

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«מוּצָק» in the Tanakh dictionary: **a casting** — 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:** 3 times · **Key:** 4165 · **BDB:** מוּצָק

### Glosses

casting (2); lump (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

a casting [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4165/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. casting [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4165/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. a casting; מ׳ אֶחָד 1 K 7:37 (of metal); of dust compacted into clod בְּצֶקֶת עָפָר לַמּוּצָק Jb 38:38.—ii. מוצק v. sub צוק.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מוּצָק» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4165/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 38:38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.38.38/)

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בְּצֶ֣קֶת עָ֭פָר לַמּוּצָ֑ק וּרְגָבִ֥ים יְדֻבָּֽקוּ׃

*Word for word:* when flows \[the\].dust into (the) lump and.\[the\] clods they.are.joined.together

*JPS 1917:* When the dust runneth into a mass, and the clods cleave fast together?

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[1 Kings 7:37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.7.37/)

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כָּזֹ֣את עָשָׂ֔ה אֵ֖ת עֶ֣שֶׂר הַמְּכֹנ֑וֹת מוּצָ֨ק אֶחָ֜ד מִדָּ֥ה אַחַ֛ת קֶ֥צֶב אֶחָ֖ד לְכֻלָּֽהְנָה׃ס

*Word for word:* like this he.made (et) the.ten the stands casting one a.measurement one a.shape one \[belonged\].to all of.them

*JPS 1917:* After this manner he made the ten bases; all of them had one casting, one measure, and one form.

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