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title: מִשְׁעִי — cleansing · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מִשְׁעִי (4935), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: cleansing. BDB 1906: n.f. cleansing. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מִשְׁעִי

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«מִשְׁעִי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **cleansing** — 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:** 4935 · **BDB:** מִשְׁעִי

### Glosses

cleansing (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

cleansing [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4935/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. cleansing [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4935/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. (? = מִשְׁעִית cf. Thes Sm) cleansing, only לֹא רֻחַצְתְּ לְמ׳ Ez 16:4 thou wast not washed for cleansing (cf. 𝔗 Thes and Add98 Sm RV al.; 𝔙 ad salutem, as if from ישׁע; 𝔊 om., and so Co Be SS, cf. Buhl; form strange, and word at best dub.)

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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 (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מִשְׁעִי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4935/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Ezekiel 16:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.16.4/)

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וּמוֹלְדוֹתַ֗יִךְ בְּי֨וֹם הוּלֶּ֤דֶת אֹתָךְ֙ לֹֽא־כָרַּ֣ת שָׁרֵּ֔ךְ וּבְמַ֥יִם לֹֽא־רֻחַ֖צְתְּ לְמִשְׁעִ֑י וְהָמְלֵ֙חַ֙ לֹ֣א הֻמְלַ֔חַתְּ וְהָחְתֵּ֖ל לֹ֥א חֻתָּֽלְתְּ׃

*Word for word:* and birth(s) your on the.day were.born you not it.was.cut.off cord your.umbilical and with water not you.were.washed for cleansing and at.all.(be.salted) not you.were.rubbed.with.salt and at.all.(be.wrapped) not you.were.wrapped

*JPS 1917:* And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water for cleansing; thou was not salted at all, nor swaddled at all.

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