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# כֶּבֶשׁ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3534

**footstool** — 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

footstool [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3534/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כֶּ֫בֶשׁ: footstool [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3534/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] footstool (late) (NH id., step, stair; Aramaic כִּבְשָׁא, etc., a rude seat (rare))—כ׳ בַּזָּהָב 2 Ch 9:18 (of Solomon’s throne).

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 (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[2 Chronicles 9:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.9.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.9.18/#tree)

וְשֵׁ֣שׁ מַעֲל֣וֹת לַ֠כִּסֵּא וְכֶ֨בֶשׁ בַּזָּהָ֤ב לַכִּסֵּא֙ מָאֳחָזִ֔ים וְיָד֛וֹת מִזֶּ֥ה וּמִזֶּ֖ה עַל־מְק֣וֹם הַשָּׁ֑בֶת וּשְׁנַ֣יִם אֲרָי֔וֹת עֹמְדִ֖ים אֵ֥צֶל הַיָּדֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* and six steps \[belonged\].to the throne and a.footstool in (the) gold to the throne \[were\].attached and hands from this and from this \[were\].on the.place of the.sitting and two lions \[were\].standing beside the hands

*JPS 1917:* And there were six steps to the throne, with a footstool of gold, which were fastened to the throne, and arms on either side by the place of the seat, and two lions standing beside the arms.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3534.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3534/): 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).