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title: מוֹתָר — abundance · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מוֹתָר (4195), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: abundance. BDB 1906: n.m. abundance, pre-eminence. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מוֹתָר

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«מוֹתָר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **abundance** — 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:** 4195 · **BDB:** מוֹתָר

### Glosses

profit (2); the.advantage (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

abundance [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4195/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. abundance, pre-eminence [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4195/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Pr 14:23 abundance, pre-eminence;— abundance, plenty מוֹתָ֑ר Pr 14:23; 21:5 (in both opp. מַחְסוֹר). 2, מוֹתַר הָאָדָם מִן־הַבְּהֵמָה אָיִן Ec 3:19 the superiority of man over beast is nothing.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 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 «מוֹתָר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4195/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Proverbs 14:23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.14.23/)

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בְּכָל־עֶ֭צֶב יִהְיֶ֣ה מוֹתָ֑ר וּדְבַר־שְׂ֝פָתַ֗יִם אַךְ־לְמַחְסֽוֹר׃

*Word for word:* in all hard.labor it.is profit and word of.lips \[is\].only to lack

*JPS 1917:* In all labour there is profit; but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.

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[Proverbs 21:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.21.5/)

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מַחְשְׁב֣וֹת חָ֭רוּץ אַךְ־לְמוֹתָ֑ר וְכָל־אָ֝֗ץ אַךְ־לְמַחְסֽוֹר׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].plans of.a.diligent.\[person\] \[are\].only to profit and every \[one.who\].hastens \[is\].only to lack

*JPS 1917:* The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but every one that is hasty hasteth only to want.

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