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Strong's #4133 - מוֹטָה
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- pole, bar of yoke
- pole
- bar of yoke
- of oppression (figuratively)
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1285) um (מתה MTh) AC: Shake CO: Branch AB: ?: The pictograph m is a picture of water, the u is a picture of a basket which contains objects. Combined these mean "liquid contained". A green branch still contains water allowing the branch to be flexible. A green branch can then be bent to the desired shape and left to dry.
H) eum (מתהה MThH) AC: ? CO: Branch AB: ?
Nm ) eum (מתהה MThH) - I. Staff:A branch used as a staff. II. Tribe:A branch of the family. KJV (251): tribe, rod, staff, stave - Strongs: H4294 (מַטָּה)
J) ufm (מותה MWTh) AC: Shake CO: Branch AB: ?: The yoke is a branch or pole cut green then shaped to the desired shape and left to dry.
V) ufm (מותה MWTh) - Shake: To shake or waver as a green branch. KJV (39): (vf: Paal, Niphal, Hiphil, Hitpael) move, remove, slip, carry, cast, course, decay, fall, shake, slide - Strongs: H4131 (מוֹט)
Nm) ufm (מותה MWTh) - I. Branch:The bent bar of the yoke that goes around the neck, also a branch that is used as pole. II. Wavering:A slipping or wavering of the foot. KJV (6): bar, moved, staff, yoke - Strongs: H4132 (מוֹט)
Nf1) eufm (מותהה MWThH) - Yoke: The bent bar of the yoke that goes around the neck, also a branch that is used as pole. KJV (12): bar, moved, staff, yoke - Strongs: H4133 (מוֹטָה)
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Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
1 pole, plural, staves, for bearing ark 1 Chronicles 15:15.
2 bar of yoke, symbolic, of oppression Jeremiah 27:2 ("" מוֺמֵרוֺת, compare עֹל Jeremiah 27:8; Jeremiah 27:11; Jeremiah 27:12), Jeremiah 28:10,12 (compare עֹל Jeremiah 28:11); עֵץ׳מ Jeremiah 28:13; בַּרְזֶל׳מ Jeremiah 28:13 (compare עֹל Jeremiah 28:14); figurative of oppression, Isaiah 58:6,9; Ezekiel 30:18; compare (thongs of yoke) ׳אֲגֻדּוֺת מ Isaiah 58:6; מֹטֹת עֻלְּכֶם Leviticus 26:18 compare Ezekiel 34:27. — On form of yoke see Schumacher ZPV xii. 1889,160, Benz Archaeology 207.
מוֹטָה f.
(1) i.q. מוֹט No. 2, a bar, staff, 1 Chronicles 15:15. מֹטוֹת הָעֹל bars of a yoke, Leviticus 26:13; Ezekiel 34:27, a bent piece of wood put round the neck of a bull, with the two ends fastened to a wooden yoke.
(2) a yoke itself, Jeremiah 27:2, 28:10, 12 Jeremiah 28:12; Ezekiel 30:18. Metaph. Isaiah 58:6, Isaiah 58:9.