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# לוּל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3883

**shaft** — 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

shaft [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3883/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

לוּל: shaft enclosed space with steps or ladder [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3883/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] shaft or enclosed space (poss. in wall), with steps or ladder, only pl. לוּלִים 1 K 6:8 (וּבְלוּלִים יַעֲלוּ), on meaning v. StaZAW iii, 1883, 136 ff. \> 𝔊𝔙 winding-stair, cf. Buhl, v. Stal.c. (NH לוּל winding passage or stair, or enclosed space in which is a winding stair, according to LevyNHW ii. 486, but v. Stal.c.. √ dubious; hardly לולו infr.)

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[1 Kings 6:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.6.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.6.8/#tree)

פֶּ֗תַח הַצֵּלָע֙ הַתִּ֣יכֹנָ֔ה אֶל־כֶּ֥תֶף הַבַּ֖יִת הַיְמָנִ֑ית וּבְלוּלִּ֗ים יַֽעֲלוּ֙ עַל־הַתִּ֣יכֹנָ֔ה וּמִן־הַתִּֽיכֹנָ֖ה אֶל־הַשְּׁלִשִֽׁים׃

*Word for word:* the.entrance of the.side-chamber (the) middle \[was\].to the.side of the.house (the) right and by stairs people.went.up to the.middle \[chamber\] and from the.middle \[chamber\] to the thirty

*JPS 1917:* The door for the lowest row of chambers was in the right side of the house and they went up by winding stairs into the middle row, and out of the middle into the third.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3883.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3883/): 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).