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title: מִצָּבָה — guard · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מִצָּבָה (4675), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: guard. BDB 1906: n.f. guard, watch. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מִצָּבָה

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«מִצָּבָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **guard** — 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:** 4675 · **BDB:** מִצָּבָה

### Glosses

the.garrison (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

guard [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4675/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. guard, watch [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4675/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. guard, watch?—only וְחָנִיתִי לְבֵיתִי מ׳ Zc 9:8 and I encamp as watch for my house (so We Now GASm, but dub.; Kue Sta Marti Kau GASm read מַצָּבָה, but this prob. non-existent, v. supr.; MT appar. intends because of a host = מִצָּבָא).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מִצָּבָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4675/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Samuel 14:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.14.12/)

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וַיַּעֲנוּ֩ אַנְשֵׁ֨י הַמַּצָּבָ֜ה אֶת־יוֹנָתָ֣ן ׀ וְאֶת־נֹשֵׂ֣א כֵלָ֗יו וַיֹּֽאמְרוּ֙ עֲל֣וּ אֵלֵ֔ינוּ וְנוֹדִ֥יעָה אֶתְכֶ֖ם דָּבָ֑רפ וַיֹּ֨אמֶר יוֹנָתָ֜ן אֶל־נֹשֵׂ֤א כֵלָיו֙ עֲלֵ֣ה אַחֲרַ֔י כִּֽי־נְתָנָ֥ם יְהוָ֖ה בְּיַ֥ד יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* and they.answered the.men of the.garrison (et) Jonathan and (et) the.bearer his.armor(s) his and they.said come.up to us and we.will.make.known.to you something and he.said Jonathan to the.bearer his.armor(s) his come.up after me (dm) he has.given.them Yahweh in the.hand of.Israel

*JPS 1917:* And the men of the garrison spoke to Jonathan and his armour-bearer, and said: 'Come up to us, and we will show you a thing.' And Jonathan said unto his armour-bearer: 'Come up after me; for the LORD hath delivered them into the hand of Israel.'

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