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title: מָרַץ — be sick · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מָרַץ (4834), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 4 times: be sick. BDB 1906: vb. be sick. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מָרַץ

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«מָרַץ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **be sick** — 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:** 4 times · **Key:** 4834 · **BDB:** מָרַץ

### Glosses

\[will.be\].grievous (1); grievous (1); is (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

be sick [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4834/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. be sick [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4834/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. be sick, only in der. species (Assyrian ii. marâṣu DlHWB 426; Arabic مَرِضَ; Sab. מרץֿ sick person, sickness, Mordt ZMG 1876, 32; Aramaic vb. ܡܪܰܥ, מְרַע);— Pf. 3 pl. נִמְרְצוּ Jb 6:25 (but v. infr.); Pt. נִמְרָץ Mi 2:10; f. נִמְרֶ֫צֶת 1 K 2:8;—חֶבֶל נִמְרָץ Mi 2:10 a sore, grievous destruction (lit. made sick, cf. מַכָּה נַחְלָה Je 14:17); קְלָלָה נִמְרֶצֶת 1 K 2:8 a grievous curse.—In Jb 6:25 this meaning unsuit., Bu are stong, effective \[cf. Assyrian i. marâṣu, be difficult, inaccessible DlHWB 425 f.; always of something repelling\]. More prob. נמרצו = נמלצו be sweet (cf. ψ 119:103) or read נמלצו (q.v.), Che JQ July, 1897 Du Impf. sf. מַה־יַּמְרִיצְךָ Jb 16:3 what sickens thee (what disturbs, vexes thee) that thou answerest?

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מָרַץ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4834/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 6:25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.6.25/)

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מַה־נִּמְרְצ֥וּ אִמְרֵי־יֹ֑שֶׁר וּמַה־יּוֹכִ֖יחַ הוֹכֵ֣חַ מִכֶּֽם׃

*Word for word:* how! they.are.painful words of.uprightness and what? does.it.prove a.proof from you

*JPS 1917:* How forcible are words of uprightness! But what doth your arguing argue?

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[Job 16:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.16.3/)

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הֲקֵ֥ץ לְדִבְרֵי־ר֑וּחַ א֥וֹ מַה־יַּ֝מְרִֽיצְךָ֗ כִּ֣י תַעֲנֶֽה׃

*Word for word:* \[does\].an end? \[belong\].to words of.wind or what? is it.making.you.sick (cmp) you.will.answer

*JPS 1917:* Shall windy words have an end? Or what provoketh thee that thou answerest?

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