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# זָוִית

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2106

**corner** — used 2 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

corner [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2106/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

זָוִית: n.f. corner [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2106/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. corner (late) (Aramaic זָוִיתָא, ܙܳܘܺܝܬܳܐ (often for Heb. פִּנָּה, מִקְצוֹעַ), hence, as loan-word (FräAramaic Fremdw. 11, 168) Arabic زَاوِيَةٌ );—Pl. abs. זָוִיּוֹת ψ 144:12; cstr. זָוִיֹּת Zc 9:15;—וּמָֽלְאוּ כַמִּזְרָק כְּזָוִיֹּת מִזְבֵּחַ Zc 9:15 simil. of warriors streaming with blood, v. Lv 1:5, 11 etc.; בְּנוֹתֵינוּ כְּז׳ וגו׳ ψ 144:12 our daughters like corner (-pillar)s, carved (so Che al., but v. ii. חטב) in palace-fashion.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: be\] like corners (1); corners (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 144:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.144.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.144.12/#tree)

אֲשֶׁ֤ר בָּנֵ֨ינוּ ׀ כִּנְטִעִים֮ מְגֻדָּלִ֪ים בִּֽנְעוּרֵ֫יהֶ֥ם בְּנוֹתֵ֥ינוּ כְזָוִיֹּ֑ת מְ֝חֻטָּב֗וֹת תַּבְנִ֥ית הֵיכָֽל׃

*Word for word:* that sons our \[will be\].like.plants full.grown in youth(s) their daughters our \[will be\].like.corners carved \[the\].structure of.a.palace

*JPS 1917:* We whose sons are as plants grown up in their youth; whose daughters are as corner-pillars carved after the fashion of a palace;

[Zechariah 9:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.9.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.9.15/#tree)

יְהוָ֣ה צְבָאוֹת֮ יָגֵ֣ן עֲלֵיהֶם֒ וְאָכְל֗וּ וְכָֽבְשׁוּ֙ אַבְנֵי־קֶ֔לַע וְשָׁת֥וּ הָמ֖וּ כְּמוֹ־יָ֑יִן וּמָֽלְאוּ֙ כַּמִּזְרָ֔ק כְּזָוִיּ֖וֹת מִזְבֵּֽחַ׃

*Word for word:* Yahweh of.hosts he.will.defend (on) them and they.will.eat and they.will.subdue stones of.a.sling and they.will.drink they.will.be.in.an.uproar like wine and they.will.be.full like (the) bowl like.\[the\] corners of.\[the\].altar

*JPS 1917:* The LORD of hosts will defend them; and they shall devour, and shall tread down the sling-stones; and they shall drink, and make a noise as through wine; and they shall be filled like the basins, like the corners of the altar.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2106/): 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).