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title: מַר — drop · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מַר (4752), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: drop. BDB 1906: drop. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מַר

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«מַר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **drop** — 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:** 4752 · **BDB:** מַר⁴

### Glosses

a.drop (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

drop [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4752/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

drop [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4752/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] drop, only גּוֹיִם כְּמַר מִדְּלִי Is 40:15 nations are like a drop hanging from a bucket.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (10 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מַר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4752/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 40:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.40.15/)

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הֵ֤ן גּוֹיִם֙ כְּמַ֣ר מִדְּלִ֔י וּכְשַׁ֥חַק מֹאזְנַ֖יִם נֶחְשָׁ֑בוּ הֵ֥ן אִיִּ֖ים כַּדַּ֥ק יִטּֽוֹל׃

*Word for word:* there! nations \[are\].like a.drop from a.bucket and like.\[the\] dust of.balances they.are.regarded there! islands like.(the) fine \[dust\] he.lifts

*JPS 1917:* Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance; behold the isles are as a mote in weight.

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