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title: מָעוּף — darkness · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מָעוּף (4588), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: darkness. BDB 1906: id. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מָעוּף

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«מָעוּף» in the Tanakh dictionary: **darkness** — 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:** 4588 · **BDB:** מָעוּף²

### Glosses

gloom (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

darkness [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4588/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

id. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4588/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] id.;—cstr. מְעוּף צוּקָה Is 8:22 (‖ הֲשֵׁכָה); CheHpt. reads מוּעַף.

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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 (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מָעוּף» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4588/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 8:22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.8.22/)

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וְאֶל־אֶ֖רֶץ יַבִּ֑יט וְהִנֵּ֨ה צָרָ֤ה וַחֲשֵׁכָה֙ מְע֣וּף צוּקָ֔ה וַאֲפֵלָ֖ה מְנֻדָּֽח׃

*Word for word:* and to \[the\].earth it.will.look and there! trouble and darkness gloom of.distress and darkness \[it.is\].thrust.out

*JPS 1917:* or look unto the earth, behold distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish, and outspread thick darkness.

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