meged · choicest, best

What it means

meged (מֶגֶד) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “choicest, best”.

The best, the most precious thing that a place produces.

How to say it

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

1. The finest: select fruits, gifts of heaven.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• choicest ×5
• choice ×3

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×5
• Song of Songs×3

• Deuteronomy 33:13

  And of Joseph he said, “Blessed by YHWH be his land, with the choicest gifts of the heavens, with the dew, and with the deep that lies beneath,

• Deuteronomy 33:14

  and with the choicest produce of the sun, and with the choicest yield of the months,

• Deuteronomy 33:15

  and with the top of the ancient mountains, and with the choicest of the eternal hills,

• Deuteronomy 33:16

  and with the choicest of the earth and its fullness, and the favor of him who dwells in the bush. Let it come on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of the one consecrated among his brothers.

• Song of Songs 4:13

  Your shoots are a park of pomegranates with choice fruits, henna with nard,

• Song of Songs 4:16

  Awake, north wind, and come, south wind! Blow on my garden, let its balsams flow. Let my beloved come to his garden and eat his choice fruits.

• Song of Songs 7:13

  The mandrakes give fragrance, and at our doors are every kind of choice fruit, new and also old; my beloved, for you I have stored them up.

And 1 more times.