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# אַפִּרְיוֹן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H668

**sedan** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

sedan [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/668/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אַפִּרְיוֹן: sedan, litter, palanquin [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/668/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] sedan, litter, palanquin (so NH; origin dub.; no plausible Shemitic etymol.; perhaps (so RS in YuleGloss. of Anglo-Indian Words, 502) Skr. paryaṅka, litter-bed, ‘palankeen;’ perhaps (if poem be late) Gr. φορεῖον;—𝔊 has φορεῖον, 𝔙 ferculum, Syriac ܦܽܘܪܝܳܐ (and ܦܽܘܪܝܳܐ) PS3073; Sota 9:14 and Talm אַפִּרְיוֹן, Talm also פּוֹרְיָא and פּוֹרְיוֹן, LevyNHWB i. 150, iv. 17.) Ct 3:9 א׳ עָשָׂה לוֹ הַמֶּלֶךְ שְׁלֹמֹה.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a litter (1).

## In the verses

[Song of Songs 3:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.3.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.3.9/#tree)

אַפִּרְי֗וֹן עָ֤שָׂה לוֹ֙ הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ שְׁלֹמֹ֔ה מֵעֲצֵ֖י הַלְּבָנֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* a.litter he.has.made for himself the king Solomon from.(the) wood(s) of.(the) Lebanon

*JPS 1917:* King Solomon made himself a palanquin of the wood of Lebanon.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/668.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/668/): 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).