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# כֶּתֶר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3804

**crown** — used 3 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

crown [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3804/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כֶּ֫תֶר: n.m. crown [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3804/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. crown ((perhaps Pers. loan-word Lag Ges. Abh. 207), NH id.; Aramaic כִּתְרָא; Arabic كَتْرٌ / كِتْرٌ the higher hump of a camel);—always cstr., in combin. כ׳ מַלְכוּת royal crown Est 1:11; 2:17 (both of queen), 6:8 (of king).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 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 (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a crown (2); a head-dress (1).

## In the verses

[Esther 6:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.6.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.6.8/#tree)

יָבִ֙יאוּ֙ לְב֣וּשׁ מַלְכ֔וּת אֲשֶׁ֥ר לָֽבַשׁ־בּ֖וֹ הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ וְס֗וּס אֲשֶׁ֨ר רָכַ֤ב עָלָיו֙ הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ וַאֲשֶׁ֥ר נִתַּ֛ן כֶּ֥תֶר מַלְכ֖וּת בְּרֹאשֽׁוֹ׃

*Word for word:* let.people.bring clothing of.royalty which he.has.worn on him the king and a.horse which he.has.ridden on it the king and which it.has.been.put a.head-dress of.royalty on head its

*JPS 1917:* let royal apparel be brought which the king useth to wear, and the horse that the king rideth upon, and on whose head a crown royal is set;

[Esther 1:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.1.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.1.11/#tree)

לְ֠הָבִיא אֶת־וַשְׁתִּ֧י הַמַּלְכָּ֛ה לִפְנֵ֥י הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ בְּכֶ֣תֶר מַלְכ֑וּת לְהַרְא֨וֹת הָֽעַמִּ֤ים וְהַשָּׂרִים֙ אֶת־יָפְיָ֔הּ כִּֽי־טוֹבַ֥ת מַרְאֶ֖ה הִֽיא׃

*Word for word:* to bring (et) Vashti the queen before the king with a.crown of.royalty to show the peoples and the officials (et) beauty her (dm) \[was\].good of.appearance she

*JPS 1917:* to bring Vashti the queen before the king with the crown royal, to show the peoples and the princes her beauty; for she was fair to look on.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3804.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3804/): 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).