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title: מְסוּכָה — hedge · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מְסוּכָה (4534), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: hedge. BDB 1906: n.f. hedge. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מְסוּכָה

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«מְסוּכָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **hedge** — 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:** 4534 · **BDB:** מְסוּכָה²

### Glosses

than.a.thorn.hedge (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

hedge [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4534/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. hedge [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4534/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. hedge (‖ form of מְשֻׂכָה q.v. sub שׂוך);—only in fig. יָשָׁר מִמְּסוּכָה Mi 7:4, read יְשָׁרָם מְס׳ (‖ טוֹבָם כְּחֵדֶק), their most upright one is a hedge (an obstruction).

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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 (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מְסוּכָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4534/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Micah 7:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.7.4/)

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טוֹבָ֣ם כְּחֵ֔דֶק יָשָׁ֖ר מִמְּסוּכָ֑ה י֤וֹם מְצַפֶּ֙יךָ֙ פְּקֻדָּתְךָ֣ בָ֔אָה עַתָּ֥ה תִהְיֶ֖ה מְבוּכָתָֽם׃

*Word for word:* their.good person \[is\].like a.thorn-bush an.upright.\[person\] more than.a.thorn.hedge the.day of your.watchmen punishment your it.has.come now it.will.be confusion their

*JPS 1917:* The best of them is as a brier; the most upright is worse than a thorn hedge; the day of thy watchmen, even thy visitation, is come; now shall be their perplexity.

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