מָבֻשׁ
mavush · private parts
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H4016 · appears 1 time in the Bible
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mavush (מָבֻשׁ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “private parts”.
The private parts of a man; the word comes from "shame."
How to say it
ma·vush
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- A man's genitals, which cause shame to expose.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Where it appears
- Deuteronomy 25:11
When men fight together, a man and his brother, and the wife of the one comes near to rescue her husband from the hand of the one striking him, and she puts out her hand and seizes him by his private parts,