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title: מִשְׁפְּתַיִם — fire-places · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מִשְׁפְּתַיִם (4942), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: fire-places. BDB 1906: du. fire-places ash-heaps. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מִשְׁפְּתַיִם

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«מִשְׁפְּתַיִם» in the Tanakh dictionary: **fire-places** — 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:** 2 times · **Key:** 4942 · **BDB:** מִשְׁפְּתַ֫יִם

### Glosses

saddlebaskets (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

fire-places [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4942/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

du. fire-places ash-heaps [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4942/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] du. prob. fire-places or ash-heaps (viz. of the villages or encampments of the tribe) (\> Ki Thes and most sheepfolds, v. StuJu);—בֵּין הַמִּשְׁפְּתַ֫יִם Ju 5:16 (poem; cf. GFM); so (-תָּ֑יִם) Gn 49:14 (poem in J).

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מִשְׁפְּתַיִם» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4942/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Genesis 49:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.49.14/)

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יִשָּׂשכָ֖ר חֲמֹ֣ר גָּ֑רֶם רֹבֵ֖ץ בֵּ֥ין הַֽמִּשְׁפְּתָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* Issachar \[is\].a.donkey of.bone lying.down between the.two saddlebaskets

*JPS 1917:* Issachar is a large-boned ass, couching down between the sheep-folds.

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[Judges 5:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.5.16/)

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לָ֣מָּה יָשַׁ֗בְתָּ בֵּ֚ין הַֽמִּשְׁפְּתַ֔יִם לִשְׁמֹ֖עַ שְׁרִק֣וֹת עֲדָרִ֑ים לִפְלַגּ֣וֹת רְאוּבֵ֔ן גְּדוֹלִ֖ים חִקְרֵי־לֵֽב׃

*Word for word:* why? did.you.sit between the.two saddlebaskets to hear \[the\].whistling of.\[the\].flocks to the.divisions of.Reuben \[were\].great searchings of.heart

*JPS 1917:* Why sattest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the pipings for the flocks? At the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.

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