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title: מָחַק — utterly destroy · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מָחַק (4277), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: utterly destroy. BDB 1906: vb. utterly destroy, annihilate. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מָחַק

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«מָחַק» in the Tanakh dictionary: **utterly destroy** — 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:** 4277 · **BDB:** מָחַק

### Glosses

she.shattered (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

utterly destroy [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4277/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. utterly destroy, annihilate [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4277/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. utterly destroy, annihilate (cf. GFM) (NH id., wipe or rub off, erase; Aramaic מְחַק id.; Arabic مَحَقَ utterly destroy, annihilate);—only 3 fs.: מָֽחֲקָה רֹאשׁוֹ Ju 5:26 (‖ הָלַם, מָחַץ, חָלַף).

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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 (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מָחַק» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4277/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Judges 5:26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.5.26/)

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יָדָהּ֙ לַיָּתֵ֣ד תִּשְׁלַ֔חְנָה וִֽימִינָ֖הּ לְהַלְמ֣וּת עֲמֵלִ֑ים וְהָלְמָ֤ה סִֽיסְרָא֙ מָחֲקָ֣ה רֹאשׁ֔וֹ וּמָחֲצָ֥ה וְחָלְפָ֖ה רַקָּתֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* hand her to the peg they.stretched.out and her.right hand to a.hammer of.laborers and she.struck Sisera she.shattered head his and she.smashed and she.pierced temple his

*JPS 1917:* Her hand she put to the tent-pin, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote through his head, yea, she pierced and struck through his temples.

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