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title: מָעָה — grain · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מָעָה (4579), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: grain. BDB 1906: n.f. grain. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מָעָה

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«מָעָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **grain** — 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:** 4579 · **BDB:** מָעָה

### Glosses

grains (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

grain [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4579/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. grain [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4579/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. grain (of sand), si vera l. (NH מָעָה, seed (of melon, etc.), coin, Aramaic ܡܳܥܳܐ מָעָא coin);—only fpl. sf.: וַיְהִי כַחוֹל זַרְעֶ֔ךָ וְצֶאֱצָאֵי מֵעֶיךָ כִּמְעֹתָיו Is 48:19 and thy seed had been like the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the grains thereof, cf. 𝔙 𝔗 De Di Du al. \> pl. of \[מֵעֶה\] the entrails of it (i.e. the sea) AE Ges Hi CheComm..—𝔊 ὡς ὁ χοῦς τῆς γῆς, whence Gr כְּעפרותיו.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מָעָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4579/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 48:19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.48.19/)

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וַיְהִ֤י כַחוֹל֙ זַרְעֶ֔ךָ וְצֶאֱצָאֵ֥י מֵעֶ֖יךָ כִּמְעֹתָ֑יו לֹֽא־יִכָּרֵ֧ת וְֽלֹא־יִשָּׁמֵ֛ד שְׁמ֖וֹ מִלְּפָנָֽי׃

*Word for word:* and it.was like the sand offspring your and the.descendants your.inward.parts your like grains its not it.will.be.cut.off and not it.will.be.destroyed name its from before face me

*JPS 1917:* Thy seed also would be as the sand, and the offspring of thy body like the grains thereof; his name would not be cut off nor destroyed from before Me.

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