מוֹטָה
bar
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
- Singular
- One.
5 distinct verses where H4133 appears in the Construct state, across 3 books. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Leviticus 1 verse
Jeremiah 2 verses
Ezekiel 2 verses
- Ezekiel 30:18 מֹט֣וֹת n c fp cs At Tehaphnehes also the day shall withdraw itself, when I shall break there the yokes of Egypt, and the pride of her power shall cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall go into captivity.
- Ezekiel 34:27 מֹט֣וֹת n c fp cs The tree of the field shall yield its fruit, and the earth shall yield its increase, and they shall be secure in their land; and they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have broken the bars of their yoke, and have delivered them out of the hand of those who made slaves of them.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
מוטה — transliterated môwṭâh — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “bar.” Debuting at Leviticus 26:13, it then recurs through the corpus. The Hebrew Bible uses it across 10 verses — uncommon. More than a third of its appearances fall in Jeremiah. The lexicon spreads it across several senses; see its full sense range. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H4133 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 →
- 10
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 10 distinct verses.
- 5 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 5 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,101
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 10 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
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 10 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 8 verses · 80%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 1 verse · 10%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 10%
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).
- King James Version: Yokes 4×, Bands 2×, Yoke 2×
- American Standard Version: Bars 3×, Bar 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Yoke 9×, Bars 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Yoke 4×, Yoke bars 3×, Yoke bar 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H4133 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H4133 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H4133 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H4133 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 2 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. pole, pl., staves, for bearing ark 1 Ch 15:15. e.g. 1 Chronicles 15:15
- 2. bar of yoke, symb., of oppression Je 27:2 (‖ מוֹסֵרוֹת, cf. עֹל v 8, 11, 12), 28:10, 12 (cf. עֹל v 11); מ׳ עֵץ 28:13; מ׳ בַּרְזֶל v 13 (cf. עֹל v 14); fig. of oppression, Is 58:6, 9 Ez 30:18; cf. (thongs of yoke) אֲגֻדּוֹת מ׳ Is 58:6; מֹטֹת עֻלְּכֶם Lv 26:13 cf. Ez 34:27.—On form of yoke v. SchumacherZPV xii. 1889, 160, BenzArch. 207. e.g. Jeremiah 27:2
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
n.f. pole, bar of yoke, mostly late (cf. מוֹט);—מ׳ Je 28:10 + 4 times; pl. מֹטוֹת etc., abs. Je 27:2 1 Ch 15:15; cstr. Ez 30:18 + 4 times;—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from מוט (môwṭ) (H4132) — pole.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
מוֹטָה
- v. מוֹט)
- 1. a small barrow. Bets. III, 3 (25ᵃ), v. מוֹט.
- 2. pl. מוֹטוֹת bands of a yoke; yoke. Tanḥ. B’shall. 23 והיו מ׳ ומרכבות וכ׳ the yokes and the chariots ran (of themselves) &c.—
- *3. balances. Pesik. B’shall., p. 82ᵃ במטה דאמיטין אתמיט להון Ar. with the balance with which they weighed, weighing was done to them; [Ar.: as they made others sink, so were they made to sink (v. מוּט); oth. opin.: במַטֶּה וכ׳ with the staff with which they struck, were they struck].
מוּטָּה
- [bend,] the radial bone of a bird’s wing. Tanḥ. Thazr. 8; ed. Bub. 10 (ref. to Is. VIII, 8) המ׳ הזו וכ׳ the radial bone of a chicken is one sixtieth portion of its wings; [Rashi to Is. l. c. quotes מוּטּוֹת, pl.]; Midr. Till. to Ps. LXXIX, beg.; Yalk. Is. 279. e.g. Isaiah 8:8
מוּטֶּה
- reclining, v. נָטָה.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 10 distinct written forms H4133 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| הַ/מּוֹטָ֔ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Jeremiah 28:10 | 2 |
| מֹט֣וֹת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct | Ezekiel 30:18 | 2 |
| בַּ/מֹּט֖וֹת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute | 1 Chronicles 15:15 | 1 |
| וּ/מֹט֑וֹת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct | Jeremiah 27:2 | 1 |
| מֹט֥וֹת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct | Jeremiah 28:13 | 1 |
| מֹטֹ֣ת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct | Leviticus 26:13 | 1 |
| מוֹטָ֑ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 58:6 | 1 |
| מוֹטָ֔ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 58:9 | 1 |
| מוֹטָ֖ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 58:6 | 1 |
| מוֹטֹ֥ת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct | Jeremiah 28:13 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 10 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 10 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
