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title: מִשְׁעוֹל — hollow way · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מִשְׁעוֹל (4934), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: hollow way. BDB 1906: n.m. hollow way, road. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מִשְׁעוֹל

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«מִשְׁעוֹל» in the Tanakh dictionary: **hollow way** — 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:** 4934 · **BDB:** מִשְׁעוֹל²

### Glosses

the.narrow.way (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

hollow way [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4934/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. hollow way, road [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4934/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. hollow way, road shut in;—cstr. מ׳ הַכְּרָמִים Nu 22:24 (JE) i.e. road shut in between vineyards.

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מִשְׁעוֹל» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4934/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Numbers 22:24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.22.24/)

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וַֽיַּעֲמֹד֙ מַלְאַ֣ךְ יְהוָ֔ה בְּמִשְׁע֖וֹל הַכְּרָמִ֑ים גָּדֵ֥ר מִזֶּ֖ה וְגָדֵ֥ר מִזֶּֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.stood the.angel of.Yahweh in the.narrow.way of the.vineyards a.wall \[was\].from this and a.wall \[was\].from this

*JPS 1917:* Then the angel of the LORD stood in a hollow way between the vineyards, a fence being on this side, and a fence on that side.

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