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title: מִזְרֶה — pitch-fork · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מִזְרֶה (4214), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: pitch-fork. BDB 1906: pitch-fork. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מִזְרֶה

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«מִזְרֶה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **pitch-fork** — 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:** 4214 · **BDB:** מִזְרֶה

### Glosses

a.winnowing.fork (1); pitchfork (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

pitch-fork [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4214/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

pitch-fork [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4214/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] pitch-fork, with six prongs (= مذراة) used in winnowing, cf. WetzstZPV 1891, xiv. 2; for winnowing provender זֹרֶה בָרַחַת וּבְמ׳ Is 30:24; fig. for winnowing, i.e. chastising the people וָאֶזְרֵם בְּמ׳ Je 15:7.

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מִזְרֶה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4214/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Jeremiah 15:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.15.7/)

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וָאֶזְרֵ֥ם בְּמִזְרֶ֖ה בְּשַׁעֲרֵ֣י הָאָ֑רֶץ שִׁכַּ֤לְתִּי אִבַּ֙דְתִּי֙ אֶת־עַמִּ֔י מִדַּרְכֵיהֶ֖ם לוֹא־שָֽׁבוּ׃

*Word for word:* and I have.winnowed.them with a.winnowing.fork in the.gates of the.land I.have.made.childless I.have.destroyed (et) people my from ways their not they.have.turned.away

*JPS 1917:* And I fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I bereave them of children, I destroy My people, since they return not from their ways.

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[Isaiah 30:24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.30.24/)

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וְהָאֲלָפִ֣ים וְהָעֲיָרִ֗ים עֹֽבְדֵי֙ הָֽאֲדָמָ֔ה בְּלִ֥יל חָמִ֖יץ יֹאכֵ֑לוּ אֲשֶׁר־זֹרֶ֥ה בָרַ֖חַת וּבַמִּזְרֶֽה׃

*Word for word:* and the cattle(s) and the.male donkeys \[which\].till (of).the ground fodder salted they.will.eat which \[someone.has.been\].winnowing with the shovel and with the pitchfork

*JPS 1917:* The oxen likewise and the young asses that till the ground shall eat savoury provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.

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