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title: מָרַק — scour · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מָרַק (4838), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: scour. BDB 1906: vb. scour, polish. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מָרַק

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«מָרַק» in the Tanakh dictionary: **scour** — 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:** 3 times · **Key:** 4838 · **BDB:** מָרַק

### Glosses

it.will.be.scoured (1); polish (1); polished (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

scour [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4838/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. scour, polish [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4838/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. scour, polish (NH id.; Aramaic ܡܪܰܩ, מְרַק; cf. Arabic مَرَقَ scrape off wool from a skin);— Imv. מִרְקוּ הָֽרְמָחִים Je 46:4 polish the lances! Pt. pass. מָרוּק 2 Ch 4:16 polished, of bronze utensils of temple (=מְמוֹרָט 1 K 7:45). Pf. וּמֹרַק consec. Lv 6:21 be well scoured, of bronze vessel (‖ וְשֻׁטַּף בַּמָּ֑יִם). Impf. 3 fs. תַּמְרִיק only Pr 20:30 Kt, fig., in cl. חַבֻּרוֹת פֶּצַע ת׳ בְּרָ֑ע blows that cut in, cleanse away evil (cf. De Now Wild VB); Qr תַּמְרוּק i.e. (are) a cleansing. (𝔊 συναντᾷ κακοῖς, whence Gr תַּקְדִּים, Frankenb. תִּקְרֶינָה, but improb.).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 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 «מָרַק» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4838/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Jeremiah 46:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.46.4/)

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אִסְר֣וּ הַסּוּסִ֗ים וַֽעֲלוּ֙ הַפָּ֣רָשִׁ֔ים וְהִֽתְיַצְּב֖וּ בְּכ֥וֹבָעִ֑ים מִרְקוּ֙ הָֽרְמָחִ֔ים לִבְשׁ֖וּ הַסִּרְיֹנֹֽת׃

*Word for word:* harness the horses and mount the warhorses and take.your.stand with helmets polish the spears put.on the armor

*JPS 1917:* Harness the horses, and mount, ye horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; furbish the spears, put on the coats of mail.

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[Leviticus 6:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.6.21/)

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וּכְלִי־חֶ֛רֶשׂ אֲשֶׁ֥ר תְּבֻשַּׁל־בּ֖וֹ יִשָּׁבֵ֑ר וְאִם־בִּכְלִ֤י נְחֹ֙שֶׁת֙ בֻּשָּׁ֔לָה וּמֹרַ֥ק וְשֻׁטַּ֖ף בַּמָּֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* and a.vessel of.earthenware which it.will.be.boiled in it it.will.be.broken and if in a.vessel of.bronze it.was.boiled and it.will.be.scoured and it.will.be.rinsed with (the) water

*JPS 1917:* But the earthen vessel wherein it is sodden shall be broken; and if it be sodden in a brazen vessel, it shall be scoured, and rinsed in water.

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