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# חֲרֹשֶׁת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2799

**carving** — used 4 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

carving [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2799/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֲרֹ֫שֶׁת: n.f. carving, skilful working [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2799/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. carving, skilful working, only cstr. חֲרֹשֶׁת עֵץ Ex 31:5; 35:33; ח׳ אֶבֶן 31:5; 35:33.—ii. חֲרֹשֶׁת v. p. 361 infr.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: carving (4).

## In the verses

[Exodus 31:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.31.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.31.5/#tree)

וּבַחֲרֹ֥שֶׁת אֶ֛בֶן לְמַלֹּ֖את וּבַחֲרֹ֣שֶׁת עֵ֑ץ לַעֲשׂ֖וֹת בְּכָל־מְלָאכָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and in carving of.stone to fill and in carving of.wood to work in all workmanship

*JPS 1917:* and in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all manner of workmanship.

[Exodus 35:33](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.35.33/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.35.33/#tree)

וּבַחֲרֹ֥שֶׁת אֶ֛בֶן לְמַלֹּ֖את וּבַחֲרֹ֣שֶׁת עֵ֑ץ לַעֲשׂ֖וֹת בְּכָל־מְלֶ֥אכֶת מַחֲשָֽׁבֶת׃

*Word for word:* and in carving of.stone to fill and in carving of.wood to work in all workmanship of.design

*JPS 1917:* and in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all manner of skilful workmanship.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2799/): 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).