Lexicon
מֵשָׁא
me.sah
H4852
N:N--L Hebrew

Mesha

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me.sah is a proper name marking the starting point of a dwelling boundary in Genesis 10:30.

The attested use presents me.sah as a proper name identifying the point from which a dwelling area is described in Genesis 10:30.

Senses in use

  1. Proper name in a dwelling boundary · dominant

    The form is tagged as a proper noun. In Genesis 10:30, it stands after “from” in the description of where their dwelling extended; the APB renders the clause “Their dwelling was from Mesha as one comes to Sephar, the mountain of the East.”

In the Anselm Project Bible: In Genesis 10:30, the APB presents the name in the boundary phrase “from Mesha,”.

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