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Strong's #4239 - מְחִי
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- stroke (of a battering ram)
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1284) hm (מהה MHh) AC: Strike CO: Marrow AB: ?: The pictograph m is a picture of water or other liquid, the h is a picture of a wall that separates the inside from the outside. Combined these mean "liquid inside". The marrow is a buttery liquid inside the bones and is used as a choice food. To obtain the marrow, the bone must be struck to break it open.
A) hm (מהה MHh) AC: ? CO: Fat AB: ?: In the sense of the fat of the marrow.
Nm) hm (מהה MHh) - Fat: KJV (2): fatling, fat one - Strongs: H4220 (מֵחַ)
fm) ihm (מההי MHhY) - Ram: In the sense of fat. An engine of war for battering down walls. KJV (1): engine - Strongs: H4239 (מְחִי)
E) ahm (מההא MHhA) AC: Strike CO: ? AB: ?
V) ahm (מההא MHhA) - Strike: The striking of the bone to break it open to access the marrow. [Hebrew and Aramaic] KJV (7): (vf: Paal, Piel) clap, smote, hang - Strongs: H4222 (מָחָא), H4223 (מְחָא)
H) ehm (מההה MHhH) AC: Smear CO: ? AB: ?: The smearing of the marrow onto a food.
V) ehm (מההה MHhH) - Sm (vf: Paal, Niphal, Hiphil, Pual, Participle) |kjv: out, destroy, wipe, blot, polish, marrow, reach - Strongs: H4229 (מָחָה)
J) hfm (מוהה MWHh) AC: ? CO: Marrow AB: ?
Nm ) hfm (מוהה MWHh) - Marrow: KJV (1): marrow - Strongs: H4221 (מֹחַ)
Adopted Roots:
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
III. מָחָה see מֹחַ below מחח. מְחוּגָה see חוג. below,
מְחִי m. (from the root מָחָה No. II), a striking. Ezekiel 26:9, מְחִי קָבֳלוֹ according to the Targ. “the striking of his battering-rams.”
