מערה
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[edit]Compare Ugaritic 𐎎𐎙𐎗𐎚 (mġrt), Classical Syriac ܡܥܪܬܐ (məʿarṯā), Arabic مَغَارَة (maḡāra).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (reconstructed Biblical) IPA(key): /ma.ʁaː.ˈraː/ → /ma.ʕaː.ˈraː/
- (Tiberian) IPA(key): /mə.ʕɔː.ˈrɔː/
- (Modern Israeli) IPA(key): /me(ʔ)aˈʁa/
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Noun
[edit]מְעָרָה • (m'ará) f (plural indefinite מְעָרוֹת, singular construct מְעָרַת־, plural construct מְעָרוֹת־) [pattern: מַקְטָלָה]
- cave
- a. 500 C.E., Babylonian Talmud. Shabbat, 33b.7:
- כׇּל מָקוֹם שֶׁנּוֹתְנִין עֵינֵיהֶן מִיָּד נִשְׂרָף. יָצְתָה בַּת קוֹל וְאָמְרָה לָהֶם: לְהַחֲרִיב עוֹלָמִי יְצָאתֶם?! חִיזְרוּ לִמְעָרַתְכֶם!
- Every place that [Rabbi Shimon and his son Rabbi Elazar] directed their eyes was immediately burned. A Divine Voice emerged and said to them: Did you emerge from the cave in order to destroy My world? Return to your cave!
Declension
[edit]| isolated forms | with possessive pronouns | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number: | State: | form | Person: | singular | plural | ||
| m | f | m | f | ||||
| singular | indefinite | מְעָרָה | first | מְעָרָתִי | מְעָרָתֵנוּ | ||
| definite | הַמְּעָרָה | second | מְעָרָתְךָ | מְעָרָתֵךְ | מְעָרַתְכֶם | מְעָרַתְכֶן | |
| construct | מְעָרַת־ | third | מְעָרָתוֹ | מְעָרָתָהּ | מְעָרָתָם | מְעָרָתָן | |
| plural | indefinite | מְעָרוֹת | first | מערותיי / מְעָרוֹתַי | מְעָרוֹתֵינוּ | ||
| definite | הַמְּעָרוֹת | second | מְעָרוֹתֶיךָ | מערותייך / מְעָרוֹתַיִךְ | מְעָרוֹתֵיכֶם | מְעָרוֹתֵיכֶן | |
| construct | מְעָרוֹת־ | third | מְעָרוֹתָיו | מְעָרוֹתֶיהָ | מְעָרוֹתָם | מְעָרוֹתָן | |
References
[edit]- H4631 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Klein, Ernest (1987), “מְעָרָה”, in A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language for Readers of English[1], Jerusalem: Carta, →ISBN, page 368b
- Jastrow, Marcus (1903), A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature[2], London, New York: Luzac & Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons, page 819a
- “מערה” in the Hebrew Terms Database of the Academy of Hebrew Language
Further reading
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מערה on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia he
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[edit]מערה f (Latin spelling meara)
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