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title: מַחְמֹד — desirable · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מַחְמֹד (4262), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: desirable. BDB 1906: desirable, precious thing. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מַחְמֹד

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«מַחְמֹד» in the Tanakh dictionary: **desirable** — 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:** 4262 · **BDB:** מַחְמֹד

### Glosses

things (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

desirable [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4262/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

desirable, precious thing [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4262/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] desirable, precious thing;—מַחֲמֻדֶיהָ La 1:7, מַחֲמוֹדֵיהֶם La 1:11 Kt (Qr מַחֲמַדֵּיהֶם). Perhaps מַחֲמַדּ׳ to be read in both; cf. Sta§ 273 a.

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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 (3 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 «מַחְמֹד» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4262/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Lamentations 1:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.1.7/)

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זָֽכְרָ֣ה יְרוּשָׁלִַ֗ם יְמֵ֤י עָנְיָהּ֙ וּמְרוּדֶ֔יהָ כֹּ֚ל מַחֲמֻדֶ֔יהָ אֲשֶׁ֥ר הָי֖וּ מִ֣ימֵי קֶ֑דֶם בִּנְפֹ֧ל עַמָּ֣הּ בְּיַד־צָ֗ר וְאֵ֤ין עוֹזֵר֙ לָ֔הּ רָא֣וּהָ צָרִ֔ים שָׂחֲק֖וּ עַ֥ל מִשְׁבַּתֶּֽהָ׃ס

*Word for word:* it.has.remembered Jerusalem the.days its.affliction her and homelessness(es) its all things its.precious which they.were from days of.antiquity when fell people its in.\[the\] hand of.a.foe and there.\[was\].not a.helper for it they saw.it foes they.laughed on cessation(s) its

*JPS 1917:* Jerusalem remembereth in the days of her affliction and of her anguish all her treasures that she had from the days of old; now that her people fall by the hand of the adversary, and none doth help her, the adversaries have seen her, they have mocked at her desolations.

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