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מַדְהֵבָה

boisterous

also: raging, behaviour, boisterous behaviour fuller range ↓

H4062 Strong's Hebrew
madhêbâh Transliteration
/mad-hay-baw'/ Pronunciation
Usage in the Hebrew Bible 1 appearance

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מדהבה — transliterated madhêbâh — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “boisterous.” With only 1 verse it sits in the long tail of Hebrew Bible vocabulary. Its uses cluster heavily in Isaiah (100% of all occurrences). Scripture uses it exactly once, at Isaiah 14:4. BDB distinguishes 2 senses; alongside “boisterous” it spans “raging”, “behaviour”, and “boisterous behaviour”. See the sense tree, 1-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
golden city
Modern gloss
boisterous
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current BDB scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown. Download share card

About this word

Strong's H4062 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.

These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →

1
distinct verses
The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
1 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
Isaiah 14:4
only appearance
This word occurs only once, in Isaiah 14:4.
#6,101
by frequency
Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).

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Most concentrated in

By section of the Old Testament

  • Pentateuch 0 · 0%
  • Historical 0 · 0%
  • Wisdom 0 · 0%
  • Prophets 1 · 100%

By traditional corpus

Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.

  • Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 100%

How translations render this word

Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).

BDB lists this Strong’s number as 2 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.

  • King James Version: Golden city 1×
  • American Standard Version: Golden city 1×
  • Berean Standard Bible: How his fury 1×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Insolence 1×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders H4062 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Golden city” 1×

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders H4062 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Golden city” 1×

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders H4062 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “How his fury” 1×

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders H4062 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Insolence” 1×

Senses in BDB

The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.

  1. boisterous, raging, behaviour, boisterous behaviour
  2. (CLBL) golden city, exactness of gold

Word origin

I. Is 14:4, read מַרְהֵבָה v. רהב.

I. n.f. boisterous, raging behaviour;—Is 14:4; so read (for MT מַדְהֵבָה) Thes and most, after 𝔊; ‖ נגשׂ (cf. 3:5).

— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.

Derived from דהב (dᵉhab) (H1722) — gold.

Part of speech: Noun Feminine TWOT: 2125d


Septuagint verse parallels

This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.

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