מְכוּרָה
mechura · origin
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H4351 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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mechura (מְכוּרָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “origin”.
Where someone comes from.
How to say it
me·chu·ra
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
- The land a people or person comes from, where they were born and formed.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- origin ×2
- origins ×1
Where it appears
- Ezekiel 16:3
and say, ‘Thus says Adonai YHWH to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth are from the land of the Canaanite; your father was the Amorite, and your mother a Hittite.
- Ezekiel 21:30
Return it to its sheath! In the place where you were created, in the land of your origins, I will judge you.
- Ezekiel 29:14
And I will bring back the captivity of Egypt, and I will bring them back to the land of Pathros, to the land of their origin, and they will be there a lowly kingdom.