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מוּעָדָה

mu.a.dah

designated

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Strong’s H4152Noun, feminine1 time in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

appointing1

In the text

Joshua 20:9הַמּוּעָדָה
These are the cities appointed for all the Israelites and foreigners among them, so that anyone who kills a person unintentionally may flee there and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood prior to standing trial before the assembly.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

מוּעָדָה n.f. cities appointed (for refuge) Jos 20:9 (P).

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.