H4912 · מָשָׁל
mâshâl · maw-shawl' · parable, proverb, byword
H4912 (mâshâl, pronounced maw-shawl') is the Hebrew word מָשָׁל in Strong’s dictionary: properly, a pithy maxim, usually of metaphorical nature. It appears 39 times in 39 verses of the BSB (Yahweh).
Strong’s entry
- Original word
- מָשָׁל (Hebrew)
- Transliteration
- mâshâl
- Pronunciation
- maw-shawl'
- Derivation
- apparently from H4910 (מָשַׁל) in some original sense of superiority in mental action;
- Definition
- properly, a pithy maxim, usually of metaphorical nature; hence, a simile (as an adage, poem, discourse)
- Rendered in the KJV
- byword, like, parable, proverb.
In the Berean Standard Bible (Yahweh)
39 occurrences in 39 verses (36 with English words of their own, 3 in the original with no English word of their own).
How the BSB renders it
- “an oracle” ×7
- “proverb” ×4
- “proverbs” ×3
- “a proverb” ×2
- “an object of scorn” ×2
- “his discourse” ×2
- “is a proverb” ×2
- “The proverbs” ×1
By book
Numbers 7 · Deuteronomy 1 · 1 Samuel 2 · 1 Kings 2 · 2 Chronicles 1 · Job 3 · Psalms 4 · Proverbs 6 · Ecclesiastes 1 · Isaiah 1 · Jeremiah 1 · Ezekiel 8 · Micah 1 · Habakkuk 1
First 30 of 39 verses
- Numbers 23:7
- Numbers 23:18
- Numbers 24:3
- Numbers 24:15
- Numbers 24:20
- Numbers 24:21
- Numbers 24:23
- Deuteronomy 28:37
- 1 Samuel 10:12
- 1 Samuel 24:13
- 1 Kings 4:32
- 1 Kings 9:7
- 2 Chronicles 7:20
- Job 13:12
- Job 27:1
- Job 29:1
- Psalms 44:14
- Psalms 49:4
- Psalms 69:11
- Psalms 78:2
- Proverbs 1:1
- Proverbs 1:6
- Proverbs 10:1
- Proverbs 25:1
- Proverbs 26:7
- Proverbs 26:9
- Ecclesiastes 12:9
- Isaiah 14:4
- Jeremiah 24:9
- Ezekiel 12:22
Related words
Numbers that share a root with H4912.