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title: מֹשְׁכֹות — cord · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מֹשְׁכֹות (4189), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: cord. BDB 1906: n.f. cord. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מֹשְׁכֹות

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«מֹשְׁכֹות» in the Tanakh dictionary: **cord** — 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:** 4189 · **BDB:** מֹשֶׁ֫כֶת

### Glosses

the.cords (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

cord [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4189/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. cord [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4189/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. cord;—only pl. cstr. מֹשְׁכוֹת כְּסִיל Jb 38:31 the cords of Orion, i.e. prob. those by which (according to some legend) he is dragged along in the sky (cf. Di).

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מֹשְׁכֹות» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4189/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 38:31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.38.31/)

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הַֽ֭תְקַשֵּׁר מַעֲדַנּ֣וֹת כִּימָ֑ה אֽוֹ־מֹשְׁכ֖וֹת כְּסִ֣יל תְּפַתֵּֽחַ׃

*Word for word:* will you.bind.on? the.bonds of.Pleiades or? the.cords of.Orion will.you.loosen

*JPS 1917:* Canst thou bind the chains of the Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?

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