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# חֲמֻדֹות

Biblical Hebrew

**of.preciousness(es)** — used 9 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

Why these entries: BDB: none; OSHB: none

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of preciousness(es) (3); precious things (2); \[are\] precious (1).

## In the verses

[Ezra 8:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.8.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.8.27/#tree)

וּכְפֹרֵ֤י זָהָב֙ עֶשְׂרִ֔ים לַאֲדַרְכֹנִ֖ים אָ֑לֶף וּכְלֵ֨י נְחֹ֜שֶׁת מֻצְהָ֤ב טוֹבָה֙ שְׁנַ֔יִם חֲמוּדֹ֖ת כַּזָּהָֽב׃

*Word for word:* and bowls of.gold twenty of darics a.thousand and vessels of.bronze gleaming fine two precious.things like (the) gold

*JPS 1917:* and twenty bowels of gold, of a thousand darics; and two vessels of fine bright brass, precious as gold.

[Daniel 11:43](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.11.43/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.11.43/#tree)

וּמָשַׁ֗ל בְּמִכְמַנֵּי֙ הַזָּהָ֣ב וְהַכֶּ֔סֶף וּבְכֹ֖ל חֲמֻד֣וֹת מִצְרָ֑יִם וְלֻבִ֥ים וְכֻשִׁ֖ים בְּמִצְעָדָֽיו׃

*Word for word:* and he.will.rule over the.treasures of.(the) gold and (the) silver and over all the.precious.things of.Egypt and Libyans and Cushites \[will be\] in.his.steps

*JPS 1917:* But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt; and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b2_5de_5bb_5d3_5b9_5d5_5ea/): 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).