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title: מַעֲנָה — place for task · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מַעֲנָה (4618), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: place for task. BDB 1906: n.f. place for task field for ploughing. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מַעֲנָה

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«מַעֲנָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **place for task** — 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:** 4618 · **BDB:** מַעֲנָה²

### Glosses

of.a.furrow (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

place for task [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4618/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. place for task field for ploughing [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4618/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. place for task (?), specif. field for ploughing;—pl. sf. לְמַעֲנוֹתָם ψ 129:3 Kt they have extended their ploughing-grounds (Qr מַעֲנִיתָם); sg. מַעֲנָה only 1 S 14:14, where text corrupt and meaning dub. v. Comm.

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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 (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מַעֲנָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4618/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Samuel 14:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.14.14/)

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וַתְּהִ֞י הַמַּכָּ֣ה הָרִאשֹׁנָ֗ה אֲשֶׁ֨ר הִכָּ֧ה יוֹנָתָ֛ן וְנֹשֵׂ֥א כֵלָ֖יו כְּעֶשְׂרִ֣ים אִ֑ישׁ כְּבַחֲצִ֥י מַעֲנָ֖ה צֶ֥מֶד שָׂדֶֽה׃

*Word for word:* and it.was the slaughter (the) first which he.struck.down Jonathan and the.bearer his.armor(s) his about twenty man about in half of.a.furrow an.acre of.a.field

*JPS 1917:* And that first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armour-bearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were half a furrow's length in an acre of land.

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