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title: מָלוֹן — lodging-place · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מָלוֹן (4411), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 8 times: lodging-place. BDB 1906: n.m. lodging-place, inn, khan. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מָלוֹן

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«מָלוֹן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **lodging-place** — 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:** 8 times · **Key:** 4411 · **BDB:** מָלוֹן

### Glosses

place (5); \[will.be\].a.lodging.place (1); a.lodging.place (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

lodging-place [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4411/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. lodging-place, inn, khan [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4411/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. lodging-place, inn, khan;—abs. מ׳ Gn 42:27 + 5 times; cstr. מְלוֹן 2 K 19:23; Je 9:1;—lodging-place, inn, khal (?) Gn 42:27; 43:21; Ex 4:24; מְ׳ אֹרְחִים Je 9:1; = camp (of Isr.) for a night, Jos 4:3 (+ לין), v 8; of Assyrians Is 10:29; fig. מְלוֹן קִצֹּה֯ 2 K 19:23, i.e. its (Lebanon’s) remotest camping-ground, hyperb. of Assyrian conquest; so read prob. in ‖ Is 37:24 for MT מְרוֹם ק׳, cf. Di Du Kit CheHpt..

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 2 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, 2 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מָלוֹן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4411/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 10:29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.10.29/)

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עָֽבְרוּ֙ מַעְבָּרָ֔ה גֶּ֖בַע מָל֣וֹן לָ֑נוּ חָֽרְדָה֙ הָֽרָמָ֔ה גִּבְעַ֥ת שָׁא֖וּל נָֽסָה׃

*Word for word:* they.have.passed.over \[the\].pass Geba \[will.be\].a.lodging.place for us it.has.trembled (the) Ramah Gibeah of.Saul it.has.fled

*JPS 1917:* They are gone over the pass; they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah trembleth; Gibeath-shaul is fled.

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[Exodus 4:24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.4.24/)

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וַיְהִ֥י בַדֶּ֖רֶךְ בַּמָּל֑וֹן וַיִּפְגְּשֵׁ֣הוּ יְהוָ֔ה וַיְבַקֵּ֖שׁ הֲמִיתֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and it.was on the journey at the.lodging place and he met.him Yahweh and he.sought to kill.him

*JPS 1917:* And it came to pass on the way at the lodging-place, that the LORD met him, and sought to kill him.

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