Lexicon
מַאֲבוּס
ma.a.vus
H3965
H:N-M Hebrew

granary

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Hebrew
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ma.a.vus denotes storehouses opened and emptied in a scene of total destruction.

The term denotes storehouses targeted for opening and emptying amid the destruction described in Jeremiah 50:26.

Senses in use

  1. Storehouses opened for devastation · dominant

    In Jeremiah 50:26, the masculine plural construct form occurs in the command to open the storehouses before the city is piled up and utterly destroyed; the APB renders the clause, "open her granaries."

In the Anselm Project Bible: In Jeremiah 50:26, the APB presents the term in the clause "open her granaries,".

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