Hedge
מְשֻכָֿהStrong’s H4881mesukhah (me-su-khah)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mesukhah is the Hebrew word usually translated “like a hedge of” and “hedge its”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain.”
Meaning
- Hedge
- Hedge
How it's translated
- like a hedge of 1
- hedge its 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 1
- Isaiah 1
2 books in all.
Hebrew dictionary
מְשֻכָֿה mesukhah · hedge
hedge
מְשֻׂכָּה mesukhah · hedge
hedge
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “hedge” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HEDGE, noun
hej. [Eng. haw] Properly, a thicket of thorn-bushes or other shrubs or small trees; but appropriately, such a thicket planted round a field to fence it, or in rows, to separate the parts of a garden.
All definitions and other forms of “hedge”
HEDGE, verb transitive
hej. To inclose with a hedge; to fence with a thicket of shrubs or small trees; to separate by a hedge; as, to hedge a field or garden.
- To obstruct with a hedge or to obstruct in any manner.
- To surround for defense; to fortify.
- To inclose for preventing escape.
HEDGE, verb intransitive
hej. To hide, as in a hedge; to hide; to skulk.
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.