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title: מְחִי — the stroke of his battering ram · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מְחִי (4239), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: the stroke of his battering ram. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מְחִי

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«מְחִי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **the stroke of his battering ram** — 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:** 4239 · **BDB:** מְחִי

### Glosses

the.blow (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

the stroke of his battering ram [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4239/#m1)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] only in מְחִי קָבֳלּוֹ Ez 26:9 the stroke of his battering ram (cf. (מ)מחיו Ecclus 42:5 smiting a deceitful servant, margin מוסר).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מְחִי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4239/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Ezekiel 26:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.26.9/)

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וּמְחִ֣י קָֽבָלּ֔וֹ יִתֵּ֖ן בְּחֹֽמוֹתָ֑יִךְ וּמִ֨גְדְּלֹתַ֔יִךְ יִתֹּ֖ץ בְּחַרְבוֹתָֽיו׃

*Word for word:* and the.blow his.battering-ram his he.will.set on walls your and towers your he.will.break.down with swords his

*JPS 1917:* And he shall set his battering engines against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers.

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