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title: מְרוּצָה — running · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מְרוּצָה (4835), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: running. BDB 1906: n.f. running course. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מְרוּצָה

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«מְרוּצָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **running** — 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:** 4835 · **BDB:** מְרוּצָה²

### Glosses

extortion (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

running [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4835/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. running course [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4835/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. 1. running. 2. course (of life):— running, mode, style, of running, cstr. מְרוּצַת 2 S 18:27, מְרֻצַת v 27. course (of life), sf. מְרוּצָתָם Je 8:6 (Qr; \> Kt pl. מרצותם), 23:10.—ii. מְרוּצָה Je 22:17 v. sub רצץ.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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 (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מְרוּצָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4835/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Jeremiah 22:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.22.17/)

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כִּ֣י אֵ֤ין עֵינֶ֙יךָ֙ וְלִבְּךָ֔ כִּ֖י אִם־עַל־בִּצְעֶ֑ךָ וְעַ֤ל דַּֽם־הַנָּקִי֙ לִשְׁפּ֔וֹךְ וְעַל־הָעֹ֥שֶׁק וְעַל־הַמְּרוּצָ֖ה לַעֲשֽׂוֹת׃ס

*Word for word:* (dm) not eyes your and heart your \[are\].(dm) (if) on gain your.unjust and on the.blood of the.innocent.\[person\] to shed.\[it\] and on (the) oppression and on (the) extortion to do.\[it\]

*JPS 1917:* But thine eyes and thy heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.

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