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title: מִקְשָׁה — place · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מִקְשָׁה (4750), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: place. BDB 1906: n.f. place, field, of cucumbers. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מִקְשָׁה

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«מִקְשָׁה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **place** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 2 times · **Key:** 4750 · **BDB:** מִקְשָׁה³

### Glosses

a.cucumber.field (1); of.a.cucumber.field (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

place [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4750/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. place, field, of cucumbers [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4750/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. place, field, of cucumbers, Is 1:8; so Je 10:5 Gf Gie al. (cf. Baruch 6:70).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 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 «מִקְשָׁה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4750/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 1:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.1.8/)

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וְנוֹתְרָ֥ה בַת־צִיּ֖וֹן כְּסֻכָּ֣ה בְכָ֑רֶם כִּמְלוּנָ֥ה בְמִקְשָׁ֖ה כְּעִ֥יר נְצוּרָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and she.has.been.left the.daughter of.Zion like a.shelter in a.vineyard like a.hut in a.cucumber.field like a.city besieged

*JPS 1917:* And the daughter of Zion is left as a booth in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.

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[Jeremiah 10:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.10.5/)

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כְּתֹ֨מֶר מִקְשָׁ֥ה הֵ֙מָּה֙ וְלֹ֣א יְדַבֵּ֔רוּ נָשׂ֥וֹא יִנָּשׂ֖וּא כִּ֣י לֹ֣א יִצְעָ֑דוּ אַל־תִּֽירְא֤וּ מֵהֶם֙ כִּי־לֹ֣א יָרֵ֔עוּ וְגַם־הֵיטֵ֖יב אֵ֥ין אוֹתָֽם׃ס

*Word for word:* \[are\].like a.scarecrow of.a.cucumber.field they and not they.speak actually.(carry) they.are.carried (dm) not they.walk do.not be.afraid from them (dm) not they.do.harm and also doing.good there.\[is\].not them

*JPS 1917:* They are like a pillar in a garden of cucumbers, and speak not; they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them, for they cannot do evil, neither is it in them to do good.

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