מְסוּכָה
hedge
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H4534 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. 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.
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.
מסוכה (mᵉçûwkâh) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “hedge.” A scarce word — 1 verse in all of the Hebrew Bible. It clusters heavily in Micah, which alone accounts for 100% of its uses. Found nowhere else but Micah 7:4. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H4534 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.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Micah 1 verse 100%
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 1 distinct verse.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Is sharper than a thorn hedge 1×
- American Standard Version: Is worse than a thorn hedge 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Than a hedge of thorns 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H4534 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H4534 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H4534 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
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.
- hedge
Word origin
מְסוּכָה n.f. hedge;—only in fig. Mi 7:4
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from משוכה (mᵉsûwkâh) (H4881) — hedge.
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.
סוֹכָה
- = סוֹךְ. Makhsh. I, 3. Y. Sabb. XV, end, 15ᵇ. B. Mets. 105ᵇ, v. חִזָּיוֹן II. Pesik. R. s. 15 מס׳ לס׳ from bush to bush; Cant. R. to II, 9; Yalk. ib. 986. Ab. d’R. N. ch. XXXIX קוצו ס׳ זו וכ׳ cut this limb off the tree. Pesik. R. s. 10, beg. הס׳ הזו של קוצים (not הזה) this thorn-bush. Tosef. Erub. XI (VIII), 11 (not סיכה), v. סוֹךְ. Lam. R. to V, 13 בש׳ אחת, v. חָרַז; a. e.—Pl. סוֹכוֹת. Y. Bets. IV, 62ᶜ top ס׳ תאנים, v. סוֹךְ.
סוּכָּה
- cover of twigs; booth; esp. Succah, the booth covered with twigs &c. for the seven days of Succoth. Maasr. III, 7 סוּכַּת גינוסר the lodge of Genezareth gardens (inhabited during vintage); ס׳ היוצרים the potter’s hut (the outer compartment serving as a workshop, the inner as a dwelling); סֻכַּת החג the festive booth. Num. R. s. 4 (ref. to יֻסַּךְ, Ex. XXV, 29) שהיו מעמידין … כמין ס׳ they put the bread up in the shape of a hut; שכל חלה … ס׳ וכ׳ each cake forming a roof over that below (tubes being placed between them to allow the air to strike). Succ. I, 1 ס׳ שהיא גבוהה וכ׳ a Succah which is higher than twenty cubits is unfit for ritual use. Ib. 2 העושה סוּכָּתוֹ וכ׳ he who put up his Succah under a tree; a. v. fr.—Pl. סוּכּוֹת, סֻכּוֹת. Ib. 8ᵇ שתי ס׳ של יוצרים the two combined huts of the potters, v. supra; a. fr.—Succah, name of a treatise, of the Order of Moʿed, of the Mishnah, Talmud Babli a. Y’rushalmi, a. Tosefta. e.g. Exodus 25:29
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.
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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