Strong's Lexicon

H4351

H4351 — מְכוּרָה מְכוֹרָה

Hebrew / Aramaic entry for Bible study and original-language reference.

Hebrewmkuwrahnoun femOccurrences: 3TWOT: 1033c

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:H4351
Word:מְכוּרָה מְכוֹרָה
Part of Speech:noun fem
Etymology:from the same as H3564 in the sense of dipping
Language:Hebrew
Occurrences:3
Transliteration:mkuwrah
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:mek-oo-raw' (or mkorah {mek-o-raw'}) n-f.
Meaning:1. origin (as if a mine)
KJV Renderings:birth, habitation, nativity.

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced

BDB3965

[מְכֹרָה, מְכוּרָה] noun feminine origin (i.e. place of digging out?) — singular suffix אֶרֶץ מְכוּרָתָם Ezek 29:14 of a people, persons: plural suffix בְּאֶרֶץ מְכֻרוֺתַיִךְ Ezek 21:35 (|| בִּמְקוֺם אֲשֶׁר נִבְרֵאת); of Jerusalem, מְכֹדֹתַיִךְ וּמֹלְדֹתַיִךְ מֵאֶרֶץ הַכְּנַעֲנִי Ezek 16:3.


Other Resources

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

מכורה (’choo-rāh’)

Ezekiel 16:3

KJV: And say, Thus saith the Lord God unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite.birth: Heb. cutting out, or, habitation
EHCC: Thy birth (marg. cutting out, or, habitation)

Ezekiel 21:90

EHCC: (85).in the land of thy nativity.

Ezekiel 29:14

KJV: And I will bring again the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to return into the land of Pathros, into the land of their habitation; and they shall be there a base kingdom.habitation: or, birthbase: Heb. low
EHCC: the land of their habitation ; (marg. or,
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