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title: מַטְבֵּחַ — slaughtering-place · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מַטְבֵּחַ (4293), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: slaughtering-place. BDB 1906: slaughtering-place. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מַטְבֵּחַ

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«מַטְבֵּחַ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **slaughtering-place** — 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:** 4293 · **BDB:** מַטְבֵּחַ

### Glosses

a.place.of.slaughter (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

slaughtering-place [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4293/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

slaughtering-place [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4293/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] slaughtering-place (Ph. מטבח id. CISi.175), Is 14:21, for Babylonians (under implicit fig. of animals).

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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, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מַטְבֵּחַ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4293/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 14:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.14.21/)

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הָכִ֧ינוּ לְבָנָ֛יו מַטְבֵּ֖חַ בַּעֲוֺ֣ן אֲבוֹתָ֑ם בַּל־יָקֻ֙מוּ֙ וְיָ֣רְשׁוּ אָ֔רֶץ וּמָלְא֥וּ פְנֵֽי־תֵבֵ֖ל עָרִֽים׃

*Word for word:* prepare for sons his a.place.of.slaughter in the.iniquity their.ancestors their not they.will.arise and they.will.take.possession.of \[the\].earth and they.will.fill the.surface of.\[the\].world cities

*JPS 1917:* Prepare ye slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they rise not up, and possess the earth, and fill the face of the world with cities.

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