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title: מָרָא — beat · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מָרָא (lemma:מָרָא), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: beat. BDB 1906: vb. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מָרָא

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«מָרָא» in the Tanakh dictionary: **beat** — 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:מָרָא · **BDB:** מָרָא

### Glosses

it.flaps (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

beat [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b8_5e8_5b8_5d0/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b8_5e8_5b8_5d0/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. only Impf. 3 fs.: meaning dub., perhaps beat the air, or flap the wings, cf. Di De (and Wetzst in De), Bu Du (cf. Arabic مَرَى whip, urge on a horse?);—תַּמְרִ֑יא תִּשְׂחַק לַסּוּס וּלְרֹכְבֽוֹ׃ Jb 39:18 she (the ostrich) flaps away, she laughs at the horse and his rider.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מָרָא» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b8_5e8_5b8_5d0/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 39:18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.39.18/)

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כָּ֭עֵת בַּמָּר֣וֹם תַּמְרִ֑יא תִּֽשְׂחַ֥ק לַ֝סּ֗וּס וּלְרֹֽכְבֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* about the time on the height it.flaps it.laughs to the horse and to rider its

*JPS 1917:* When the time cometh, she raiseth her wings on high, and scorneth the horse and his rider.

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