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title: מִשְׁמָע — thing heard · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מִשְׁמָע (4926), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: thing heard. BDB 1906: thing heard. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מִשְׁמָע

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«מִשְׁמָע» in the Tanakh dictionary: **thing heard** — 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:** 4926 · **BDB:** מִשְׁמָע²

### Glosses

the.hearing (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

thing heard [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4926/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

thing heard [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4926/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] thing heard;—cstr. לֹא־לְמִשְׁמַע אָזְנָיו Is 11:3 not according to what his ears hear, not superficially (‖ לְמַרְאֵה עֵינָיו).

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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 (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מִשְׁמָע» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4926/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 11:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.11.3/)

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וַהֲרִיח֖וֹ בְּיִרְאַ֣ת יְהוָ֑ה וְלֹֽא־לְמַרְאֵ֤ה עֵינָיו֙ יִשְׁפּ֔וֹט וְלֹֽא־לְמִשְׁמַ֥ע אָזְנָ֖יו יוֹכִֽיחַ׃

*Word for word:* and delighting his \[will be\].in.the.fear of.Yahweh and not to the.sight his.eyes his he.will.judge and not to the.hearing his.ears his he.will.decide

*JPS 1917:* And his delight shall be in the fear of the LORD; and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither decide after the hearing of his ears;

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