מֹשֶׁה
Môsheh · mo-sheh'
Mosheh, the Israelite lawgiver
Lexicon
Derivation: from H4871 (מָשָׁה); drawing out (of the water), i.e. rescued;
Mosheh, the Israelite lawgiver
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: Moses.
Letters
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- שShin300
Picture: two front teeth (or a composite bow)
- Concrete
- teeth · sharp · press · bow
- Extended
- to consume · to destroy · to press or grind · to change · again
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
water, chaos, the mighty deep › to consume, to destroy › to reveal, behold
Water, chaos, the mighty deep that works to consume, to destroy that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of מֹשֶׁה above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
766 occurrences · 766 OT · 0 NT · 50 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and moses226 · 31%
- unto moses197 · 27%
- moses125 · 17%
- of moses61 · 8%
- which moses21 · 3%
- that moses12 · 2%
- against moses10 · 1%
- for moses10 · 1%
- as moses9 · 1%
- with moses7 · 1%
- then moses6 · 1%
- and when moses6 · 1%
- whom moses5 · 1%
- so moses5 · 1%
- and it came to pass, when moses4 · 1%
- but moses3 · 0%
- it; and moses3 · 0%
- to moses3 · 0%
- him unto moses2 · 0%
- by moses2 · 0%
- not unto moses2 · 0%
- according to all that moses2 · 0%
- unto them, wherefore do ye, moses1 · 0%
- now moses1 · 0%
- when moses1 · 0%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.