מוֹסָדָה
foundation
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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
- Both
- Attested as both masculine and feminine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Both, Plural, Construct 10 times (91%)
- Noun, Common, Both, Plural, Absolute 1 time (9%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 11 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H4146 appears — 11 distinct verses across 6 books. 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.
Deuteronomy 1 verse
2 Samuel 2 verses
- 2 Samuel 22:8 מוֹסְד֥וֹת n c bp cs Then the earth shook and trembled, The foundations of heaven quaked Were shaken, because he was angry.
- 2 Samuel 22:16 מֹסְד֣וֹת n c bp cs Then the channels of the sea appeared, The foundations of the world were laid bare, By the rebuke of Yahweh, At the blast of the breath of his nostrils.
Psalms 2 verses
- Psalms 18:7 וּ/מוֹסְדֵ֣י conj + n c bp cs Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations also of the mountains quaked and were shaken, Because he was angry.
- Psalms 18:15 מוֹסְד֪וֹת n c bp cs Then the channels of waters appeared, The foundations of the world were laid bare at your rebuke, Yahweh, At the blast of the breath of your nostrils.
Isaiah 3 verses
- Isaiah 24:18 מ֥וֹסְדֵי n c bp cs It shall happen, that he who flees from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he who comes up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows on high are opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble.
- Isaiah 40:21 מוֹסְד֖וֹת n c bp cs Have you not known? have yet not heard? has it not been told you from the beginning? have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?
- Isaiah 58:12 מוֹסְדֵ֥י n c bp cs Those who shall be of you shall build the old waste places; you shall raise up the foundations of many generations; and you shall be called The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
Jeremiah 2 verses
- Jeremiah 31:37 מֽוֹסְדֵי n c bp cs Thus says Yahweh: If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, then will I also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, says Yahweh.
- Jeremiah 51:26 לְ/מֽוֹסָד֑וֹת prep + n c bp They shall not take of you a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but you shall be desolate for ever, says Yahweh.
Micah 1 verse
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.
At its core, מוסדה (môwçâdâh) means “foundation.” The King James Version usually renders it “foundations,” while modern versions prefer “foundations of” (unfoldingWord Literal Text) — see the renderings breakdown. With 11 verses in 6 books, it is an uncommon word in the Hebrew Bible. Its uses concentrate in Isaiah (27% of all occurrences). Scripture first uses it in Deuteronomy 32:22. Dig into 11-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H4146 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 →
- 11
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 11 distinct verses.
- 6 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 6 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,210
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,210 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 11 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 11 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 8 verses · 73%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 verses · 18%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 1 verse · 9%
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: Foundations 10×
- American Standard Version: Foundations 10×
- Berean Standard Bible: Foundations 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Foundations of 8×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H4146 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H4146 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H4146 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear 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 H4146 across 9 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.
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense 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.
- foundation
Word origin
Derived from מוסד (môwçâd) (H4144) — foundation.
Forms in the corpus
The 10 distinct written forms H4146 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| מוֹסְדֵ֥י | Noun, Common, Both, Plural, Construct | Deuteronomy 32:22 | 2 |
| וּ/מוֹסְדֵ֣י | Noun, Common, Both, Plural, Construct | Psalms 18:7 | 1 |
| לְ/מֽוֹסָד֑וֹת | Noun, Common, Both, Plural, Absolute | Jeremiah 51:26 | 1 |
| מ֥וֹסְדֵי | Noun, Common, Both, Plural, Construct | Isaiah 24:18 | 1 |
| מֹ֣סְדֵי | Noun, Common, Both, Plural, Construct | Micah 6:2 | 1 |
| מֹסְד֣וֹת | Noun, Common, Both, Plural, Construct | 2 Samuel 22:16 | 1 |
| מֽוֹסְדֵי | Noun, Common, Both, Plural, Construct | Jeremiah 31:37 | 1 |
| מוֹסְד֖וֹת | Noun, Common, Both, Plural, Construct | Isaiah 40:21 | 1 |
| מוֹסְד֥וֹת | Noun, Common, Both, Plural, Construct | 2 Samuel 22:8 | 1 |
| מוֹסְד֪וֹת | Noun, Common, Both, Plural, Construct | Psalms 18:15 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 11 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 11 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.
