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title: מְרֹדָךְ — Merodach. Compare · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מְרֹדָךְ (4781), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: Merodach. Compare. BDB 1906: n.pr.div. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מְרֹדָךְ

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«מְרֹדָךְ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Merodach. Compare** — 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:** 4781 · **BDB:** מְרֹדַךְ

### Glosses

Marduk (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Merodach. Compare [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4781/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.div. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4781/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.div. chief god of Babylon in Nebuchadrezzar’s time (Assyrian Mar(u)duk(u) Schr COT Gloss. Tiele Bab.-Assyrian Gesch. 530 ff.; SayRel.Bab. 96 ff.; cf. Muss-Arnolt JBL xi. 1892, 164 f.);—נִלְכְּדָה בָּבֶל הֹבִישׁ בֵּל חַת מְרֹדָ֑ךְ Je 50:2 (𝔊 Μαιωδακ).

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Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מְרֹדָךְ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4781/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Jeremiah 50:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.50.2/)

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הַגִּ֨ידוּ בַגּוֹיִ֤ם וְהַשְׁמִ֙יעוּ֙ וּֽשְׂאוּ־נֵ֔ס הַשְׁמִ֖יעוּ אַל־תְּכַחֵ֑דוּ אִמְרוּ֩ נִלְכְּדָ֨ה בָבֶ֜ל הֹבִ֥ישׁ בֵּל֙ חַ֣ת מְרֹדָ֔ךְ הֹבִ֣ישׁוּ עֲצַבֶּ֔יהָ חַ֖תּוּ גִּלּוּלֶֽיהָ׃

*Word for word:* declare among the nations and make.a.proclamation and lift.up a.standard make.a.proclamation do.not hide.\[it\] say it.will.be.captured Babylon it.will.be.put.to.shame Bel it.will.be.shattered Marduk they.will.be.put.to.shame images its they.will.be.shattered idols its

*JPS 1917:* Declare ye among the nations and announce, and set up a standard; announce, and conceal not; say: 'Babylon is taken, Bel is put to shame, Merodach is dismayed; her images are put to shame, her idols are dismayed.'

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