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title: מֵידְבָא — Medeba · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מֵידְבָא (4311), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 5 times: Medeba. BDB 1906: n.pr.loc. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מֵידְבָא

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«מֵידְבָא» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Medeba** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 5 times · **Key:** 4311 · **BDB:** מֵידְבָא

### Glosses

Medeba (5)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Medeba [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4311/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4311/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. city in Moab (MI 8 מהדבה)—Nu 21:30 Is 15:2; Jos 13:9, 16 assigned to Reuben (𝔊 Δαιδαβαν, Μαιδαβα, 𝔊L Μεδαβα); 1 Ch 19:7 meeting-place of Ammonites (𝔊 Μαιθαβα, A 𝔊L Μηδαβα).

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מֵידְבָא» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4311/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Numbers 21:30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.21.30/)

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וַנִּירָ֛ם אָבַ֥ד חֶשְׁבּ֖וֹן עַד־דִּיב֑וֹן וַנַּשִּׁ֣ים עַד־נֹ֔פַח אֲשֶׁ֖רׄעַד־מֵֽידְבָֽא׃

*Word for word:* and we shot.at.them it.has.perished Heshbon to Dibon and we.have.devastated to Nophah which \[is\].to Medeba

*JPS 1917:* We have shot at them — Heshbon is perished — even unto Dibon, and we have laid waste even unto Nophah, which reacheth unto Medeba.

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[Joshua 13:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.13.9/)

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מֵעֲרוֹעֵ֡ר אֲשֶׁר֩ עַל־שְׂפַת־נַ֨חַל אַרְנ֜וֹן וְהָעִ֨יר אֲשֶׁ֧ר בְּתוֹךְ־הַנַּ֛חַל וְכָל־הַמִּישֹׁ֥ר מֵידְבָ֖א עַד־דִּיבֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* from Aroer which \[is\].on the.edge of.the.wadi of.Arnon and the city which \[is\].in the.middle of the.wadi and all the plain Medeba to Dibon

*JPS 1917:* from Aroer, that is on the edge of the valley of Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the table-land from Medeba unto Dibon;

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