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# כֹּתֶל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3796

**wall** — 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

wall [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3796/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כֹּ֫תֶל: wall [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3796/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] wall of house (NH כּוֹתֶל, Aramaic כּוֹתְלָא);—only sf. כָּתְלֵנוּ Ct 2:9.

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

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Song of Songs 2:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.2.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.2.9/#tree)

דּוֹמֶ֤ה דוֹדִי֙ לִצְבִ֔י א֖וֹ לְעֹ֣פֶר הָֽאַיָּלִ֑ים הִנֵּה־זֶ֤ה עוֹמֵד֙ אַחַ֣ר כָּתְלֵ֔נוּ מַשְׁגִּ֙יחַ֙ מִן־הַֽחֲלֹּנ֔וֹת מֵצִ֖יץ מִן־הַֽחֲרַכִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].like lover my (to).a gazelle or (to \[the\].fawn of the.deer(s) there! this \[he.is\].standing behind wall our \[he.is\].gazing from the windows \[he.is\].peering from the lattices

*JPS 1917:* My beloved is like a gazelle or a young hart; behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh in through the windows, he peereth through the lattice.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3796.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3796/): 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).