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# אֶדֶן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H134

**base** — used 57 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

base [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/134/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֶ֫דֶן: n.m. base, pedestal [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/134/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Ex 26:19 base, pedestal—אָדֶ֑ן Ex 38:27; pl. אֲדָנִים Ex 26:19 +; cstr. אַדְנֵי Ct 5:15 +, etc. pedestals of fine gold, on wh. pillars of marble were set Ct 5:15. pedestals of the earth on wh. its pillars were placed Jb 38:6 (‖ corner-stone). (metal) pedestals, bases, or sockets in wh. tenons of planks & pillars of tabernacle were set up; two for each plank & one for each pillar Ex 26:19(×3) + 52 textual in Ex 26.27.35–40 Nu 3.4 (all P); cf. 𝔊 Sm Co for אָרְכּוֹ Ez 41:22, of altar.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: bases (51); the bases (5); base (1).

## In the verses

[Job 38:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.38.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.38.6/#tree)

עַל־מָ֭ה אֲדָנֶ֣יהָ הָטְבָּ֑עוּ א֥וֹ מִֽי־יָ֝רָ֗ה אֶ֣בֶן פִּנָּתָֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* on what? bases its were.they.sunk or who? did.he.lay the.stone its.corner her

*JPS 1917:* Whereupon were the foundations thereof fastened? Or who laid the corner-stone thereof,

[Exodus 27:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.27.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.27.17/#tree)

כָּל־עַמּוּדֵ֨י הֶֽחָצֵ֤ר סָבִיב֙ מְחֻשָּׁקִ֣ים כֶּ֔סֶף וָוֵיהֶ֖ם כָּ֑סֶף וְאַדְנֵיהֶ֖ם נְחֹֽשֶׁת׃

*Word for word:* all the.pillars of the.courtyard all.around \[will.be\].furnished.with.bands silver hooks their \[will.be\].silver and bases their \[will.be\].bronze

*JPS 1917:* All the pillars of the court round about shall be filleted with silver; their hooks of silver, and their sockets of brass.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/134.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/134/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).