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# דֶּקֶר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1857

**Dekar** — 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

Dekar [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1857/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דֶּ֫קֶר: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1857/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (piercing, i.e. sharp weapon? Talm. pick, mattock) 1 K 4:9 בֶּן־דֶּקֶר cf. sub. בן.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[1 Kings 4:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.4.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.4.9/#tree)

בֶּן־דֶּ֛קֶר בְּמָקַ֥ץ וּבְשַֽׁעַלְבִ֖ים וּבֵ֣ית שָׁ֑מֶשׁ בֵ֣ית שָׁ֑מֶשׁ וְאֵיל֖וֹנ בֵּ֥ית חָנָֽן אֵיל֖וֹנ בֵּ֥ית חָנָֽן אֵיל֖וֹנ בֵּ֥ית חָנָֽן׃ס

*Word for word:* Ben- Deker in Makaz and in Shaalbim and in Beth.Shemesh and Elon Beth Hanan

*JPS 1917:* the son of Deker, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth-shemesh, and Elon-beth-hanan;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1857.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1857/): 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).