Strong's Lexicon

H4770

H4770 — מַרבֵּק

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

Hebrewmarbeqnoun mascOccurrences: 4TWOT: 2110a

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:	H4770
Word:	מַרבֵּק
Part of Speech:	noun masc
Etymology:	from an unused root meaning to tie up
Language:	Hebrew
Occurrences:	4
Transliteration:	marbeq
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:	mar-bake'
Meaning:	1. a stall (for cattle)
KJV Renderings:	X fat(-ted), stall.

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced

BDB7732

מַרְבֵק noun [masculine] stall (literally tying-place); — ׳ עֲגָלִים מִתּוֺךְ מ Amos 6:4 calves out of the stall (where they were fattened); ׳ עֵגֶלמֿ 1Sam 28:24 i.e. a stall-fed, fatted, calf; so ׳ כְּעֶנְלֵי מ Mal 3:20 (simile of prosperity), Jer 46:21 (simile of well-fed and arrogant mercenaries).

Other Resources

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

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

מרבק (mar-behk’)

Jeremiah 46:21

KJV: Also her hired men are in the midst of her like fatted bullocks; for they also are turned back, and are fled away together: they did not stand, because the day of their calamity was come upon them, and the time of their visitation.fatted…: Heb. bullocks of the stall

EHCC: her hired men (are)...like fatted bullocks;

Amos 6:4

KJV: That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall;stretch…: or, abound with superfluities

EHCC: out of the midst of the stall;

Malachi 4:2

KJV: But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.

EHCC: (3:20).grow up as calves of the stall.

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