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title: מאוּם — blemish · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מאוּם (lemma:מאוּם), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 20 times: blemish. BDB 1906: n.m. blemish, defect. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מאוּם

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«מאוּם» in the Tanakh dictionary: **blemish** — 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:** 20 times · **Key:** lemma:מאוּם · **BDB:** מאוּם

### Glosses

a.blemish (13); blemish (6); defect (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

blemish [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5d0_5d5_5bc_5dd/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. blemish, defect [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5d0_5d5_5bc_5dd/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Jb 31:7 blemish, defect (for מְאוּם, which, although found only late, is (si vera l.) appar.original form, Köii. 146);—מ׳ abs.: of physical defect Dn 1:4. fig. בְּכַפַּי דָּבַק מ׳ Jb 31:7 of moral stain; usually

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מאוּם» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5d0_5d5_5bc_5dd/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Song of Songs 4:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.4.7/)

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כֻּלָּ֤ךְ יָפָה֙ רַעְיָתִ֔י וּמ֖וּם אֵ֥ין בָּֽךְ׃ס

*Word for word:* of.you all \[is\].beautiful my.friend my and blemish there.\[is\].not in you

*JPS 1917:* Thou art all fair, my love; and there is no spot in thee.

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[Deuteronomy 32:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.32.5/)

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שִׁחֵ֥ת ל֛וֹ לֹ֖א בָּנָ֣יו מוּמָ֑ם דּ֥וֹר עִקֵּ֖שׁ וּפְתַלְתֹּֽל׃

*Word for word:* it.has.acted.corruptly to him not children his blemish their a.generation perverse and crooked

*JPS 1917:* Is corruption His? No; His children's is the blemish; a generation crooked and perverse.

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