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title: מֵץ — squeezer · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מֵץ (lemma:מֵץ), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: squeezer. BDB 1906: n.m. squeezer extortioner, oppressor. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מֵץ

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«מֵץ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **squeezer** — 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:** lemma:מֵץ · **BDB:** מֵץ

### Glosses

oppressor (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

squeezer [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b5_5e5/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. squeezer extortioner, oppressor [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b5_5e5/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. squeezer, i.e. extortioner, oppressor, only הַמֵּץ Is 16:4.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (7 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 «מֵץ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b5_5e5/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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יָג֤וּרוּ בָךְ֙ נִדָּחַ֔י מוֹאָ֛ב הֱוִי־סֵ֥תֶר לָ֖מוֹ מִפְּנֵ֣י שׁוֹדֵ֑ד כִּֽי־אָפֵ֤ס הַמֵּץ֙ כָּ֣לָה שֹׁ֔ד תַּ֥מּוּ רֹמֵ֖ס מִן־הָאָֽרֶץ׃

*Word for word:* let.them.sojourn among you my.banished \[ones\] Moab become a.shelter for them from before \[the\].destroyer (dm) he.will.come.to.an.end the oppressor it.will.cease devastation they.will.be.finished \[the\].trampler from the land

*JPS 1917:* Let mine outcasts dwell with thee; as for Moab, be thou a covert to him from the face of the spoiler.' For the extortion is at an end, spoiling ceaseth, they that trampled down are consumed out of the land;

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