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# כַּרְכֹּב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3749

**border** — 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

border [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3749/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כַּרְכֹּב: border, rim [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3749/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] border, rim, of altar (NH id.);—cstr. כ׳ הַמִּזְבֵּחַ Ex 27:5; c. sf. כַּרְכֻּבּוֹ 38:4 (both P).

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 (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Exodus 38:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.38.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.38.4/#tree)

וַיַּ֤עַשׂ לַמִּזְבֵּ֙חַ֙ מִכְבָּ֔ר מַעֲשֵׂ֖ה רֶ֣שֶׁת נְחֹ֑שֶׁת תַּ֧חַת כַּרְכֻּבּ֛וֹ מִלְּמַ֖טָּה עַד־חֶצְיֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and he.made for the altar a.grating a.work of.a.net of.bronze under ledge its from to downwards to middle its

*JPS 1917:* And he made for the altar a grating of network of brass, under the ledge round it beneath, reaching halfway up.

[Exodus 27:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.27.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.27.5/#tree)

וְנָתַתָּ֣ה אֹתָ֗הּ תַּ֛חַת כַּרְכֹּ֥ב הַמִּזְבֵּ֖חַ מִלְּמָ֑טָּה וְהָיְתָ֣ה הָרֶ֔שֶׁת עַ֖ד חֲצִ֥י הַמִּזְבֵּֽחַ׃

*Word for word:* and you.will.put it under the.ledge of the.altar from to downwards and it.will.be the net to the.middle of the.altar

*JPS 1917:* And thou shalt put it under the ledge round the altar beneath, that the net may reach halfway up the altar.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3749.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3749/): 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).