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מְבוּקָה
me.vu.qah
H4003
H:N-F Hebrew

emptiness

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me.vu.qah denotes an emptied or desolate place in Nahum's question about the lions' former habitation.

The sole attested use places me.vu.qah in a question about the lions' habitation and pasture, portraying that location as emptied or desolate.

Senses in use

  1. An emptied or desolate habitation · dominant

    In Nahum 2:11, the feminine singular absolute form occurs in the question about where the lions' habitation and pasture are; the APB renders the verse as a search for the place where the lion and its whelp had been, with none making them tremble.

In the Anselm Project Bible: In Nahum 2:11, the APB presents the verse as a question, “Where is the habitation of lions and the pasture for lions”; Its exact rendering of the lemma cannot be isolated with certainty.

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