To remove
מוּשׁStrong’s H4185mush
Appears in 19 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mush is the Hebrew word usually translated “it will depart”, “it departs” and “it will be removed”. It appears in 19 verses of the Old Testament.
“For behold the stone that I have laid before Joshua; upon one stone shall be seven eyes: behold, I will engrave the graving thereof, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.”
Meaning
- To depart, remove(Qal) · (Hiphil) to remove, depart
How it's translated
- it will depart 3
- it departs 2
- it will be removed 2
- they will depart 2
- it departed 1
- he departed 1
- they departed 1
- you depart 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 4
- Exodus 2
- Jeremiah 2
- Micah 2
- Zechariah 2
- Numbers 1
12 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Zechariah 14:4In contextAnd his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
- Exodus 13:22He took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, from before the people.
- Exodus 33:11And the LORD spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend. And he turned again into the camp: but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not out of the tabernacle.
- Numbers 14:44But they presumed to go up unto the hill top: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and Moses, departed not out of the camp.
- Joshua 1:8This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.
- Judges 6:18Depart not hence, I pray thee, until I come unto thee, and bring forth my present, and set it before thee. And he said, I will tarry until thou come again.
Hebrew dictionary
מוּשׁ mush · to remove
1) to depart, remove 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to depart 1a2) to remove 1a3) to be removed (of inanimate objects) 1b) (Hiphil) to remove, depart
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “remove” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
REMOVE, verb transitive
[Latin removeo; re and moveo, to move.]
- To cause to change place; to put from its place in any manner; as, to remove a building.“Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor's landmark” Deuteronomy 19:14
- To displace from an office.
- To take or put away in any manner; to cause to leave a person or thing; to banish or destroy; as, to remove a disease or complaint.“REMOVE sorrow from thine heart” Ecclesiastes 11:10
- To carry from one court to another; as, to remove a cause or suit by appeal.
All definitions and other forms of “remove”
- To take from the present state of being; as, to remove one by death.
REMOVE, verb intransitive
- To change place in any manner.
- To go from one place to another.
- To change the place of residence; as, to remove from New York to Philadelphia.
REMOVE, noun
- Change of place.
- Translation of one to the place of another.
- State of being removed.
- Act of moving a man in chess or other game.
- Departure; a going away.
- The act of changing place; removal.
- A step in any scale of gradation.
- Any indefinite distance; as a small or great remove
- The act of putting a horse's shoes on different feet.
- A dish to be changed while the rest of the course remains.
- Susceptibility of being removed. [Not in use.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.