Origin
מְכֹרָהStrong’s H4351mekhurah (me-khu-rah)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mekhurah is the Hebrew word usually translated “origins your” and “origin their”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite.”
Meaning
- Origin
How it's translated
- origins your 2
- origin their 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 3
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Ezekiel 21:30Shall I cause it to return into his sheath? I will judge thee in the place where thou wast created, in the land of thy nativity.
- Ezekiel 29:14And I will bring again the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to return into the land of Pathros, into the land of their habitation; and they shall be there a base kingdom.
Hebrew dictionary
מְכֹרָה mekhurah · origin
origin
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “origin” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
OR'IGIN, noun
[Latin origo.]
- The first existence or beginning of any thing; as the origin of Rome.
- Fountain; source; cause; that from which any thing primarily proceeds; that which gives existence or beginning.
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.