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title: מְלוּנָה — lodge · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מְלוּנָה (4412), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: lodge. BDB 1906: n.f. lodge, hut. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מְלוּנָה

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«מְלוּנָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **lodge** — 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:** 2 times · **Key:** 4412 · **BDB:** מְלוּנָה

### Glosses

a.hut (1); hut (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

lodge [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4412/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. lodge, hut [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4412/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. lodge, hut;—מ׳ בְּמִקְשָׁה Is 1:8 (i.e. a watchman’s hut); sim. of frail, insecure structure וְהִתְנוֹדֲדָה כַּמְּלוּנָה Is 24:20 and it \[the earth\] shall shake (or totter) like a hut.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 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, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מְלוּנָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4412/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 1:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.1.8/)

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וְנוֹתְרָ֥ה בַת־צִיּ֖וֹן כְּסֻכָּ֣ה בְכָ֑רֶם כִּמְלוּנָ֥ה בְמִקְשָׁ֖ה כְּעִ֥יר נְצוּרָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and she.has.been.left the.daughter of.Zion like a.shelter in a.vineyard like a.hut in a.cucumber.field like a.city besieged

*JPS 1917:* And the daughter of Zion is left as a booth in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.

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[Isaiah 24:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.24.20/)

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נ֣וֹעַ תָּנ֤וּעַ אֶ֙רֶץ֙ כַּשִּׁכּ֔וֹר וְהִֽתְנוֹדְדָ֖ה כַּמְּלוּנָ֑ה וְכָבַ֤ד עָלֶ֙יהָ֙ פִּשְׁעָ֔הּ וְנָפְלָ֖ה וְלֹא־תֹסִ֥יף קֽוּם׃ס

*Word for word:* wildly.(stagger) it.will.stagger \[the\].earth like (the) drunkard and it.will.sway like (the) hut and it.will.be.heavy on it transgression its and it.will.fall and not it.will.repeat to.rise

*JPS 1917:* The earth reeleth to and fro like a drunken man, and swayeth to and fro as a lodge; and the transgression thereof is heavy upon it, and it shall fall, and not rise again.

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