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title: מַחְסוֹם — muzzle · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מַחְסוֹם (4269), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: muzzle. BDB 1906: n.m. muzzle. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מַחְסוֹם

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«מַחְסוֹם» in the Tanakh dictionary: **muzzle** — 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:** 4269 · **BDB:** מַחְסוֹם

### Glosses

a.muzzle (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

muzzle [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4269/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. muzzle [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4269/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. muzzle, אֶשְׁמְרָה־לְפִי מ׳ ψ 39:2 let me keep a muzzle to my mouth, to avoid (hasty and) erring speech.

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מַחְסוֹם» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4269/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 39:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.39.2/)

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אָמַ֗רְתִּי אֶֽשְׁמְרָ֣ה דְרָכַי֮ מֵחֲט֪וֹא בִלְשׁ֫וֹנִ֥י אֶשְׁמְרָ֥ה לְפִ֥י מַחְס֑וֹם בְּעֹ֖ד רָשָׁ֣ע לְנֶגְדִּֽי׃

*Word for word:* I.said I.will.guard ways my from sinning with tongue my I.will.keep to mouth my a.muzzle while still \[the\].wicked \[is\].to before me

*JPS 1917:* I said: 'I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue; I will keep a curb upon my mouth, while the wicked is before me.'

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