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# לֹיָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3914

**wreath** — 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

wreath [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3914/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

לֹיָה: n.f. wreath [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3914/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. wreath? (meaning dubious, cf. StaZAW iii. 1883, 161; poss. = לְוֹיָה);—pl. לֹיוֹת 1 K 7:29, 30, 36 of carved work on bases of lavers in Solomon’s temple.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 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: wreaths (3).

## In the verses

[1 Kings 7:36](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.7.36/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.7.36/#tree)

וַיְפַתַּ֤ח עַל־הַלֻּחֹת֙ יְדֹתֶ֔יהָ וְעַל֙ מִסְגְּרֹתֶ֔יהָ כְּרוּבִ֖ים אֲרָי֣וֹת וְתִמֹרֹ֑ת כְּמַֽעַר־אִ֥ישׁ וְלֹי֖וֹת סָבִֽיב׃

*Word for word:* and he.engraved on the plates hands its and on rims its cherubim lions and palm.trees according to.the.clear.space of.each and wreaths \[were\].all.around

*JPS 1917:* And on the plates of the stays thereof, and on the borders thereof, he graved cherubim, lions, and palm-trees, according to the space of each, with wreaths round about.

[1 Kings 7:29](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.7.29/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.7.29/#tree)

וְעַֽל־הַמִּסְגְּר֞וֹת אֲשֶׁ֣ר ׀ בֵּ֣ין הַשְׁלַבִּ֗ים אֲרָי֤וֹת ׀ בָּקָר֙ וּכְרוּבִ֔ים וְעַל־הַשְׁלַבִּ֖ים כֵּ֣ן מִמָּ֑עַל וּמִתַּ֙חַת֙ לַאֲרָי֣וֹת וְלַבָּקָ֔ר לֹי֖וֹת מַעֲשֵׂ֥ה מוֹרָֽד׃

*Word for word:* and.\[were\] on the rims which \[were\].between the.cross bars lions ox\[en\] and cherubim and.\[was\] on the.cross bars a.base from above and.\[were\] from under to the.lions and to the ox\[en\] wreaths \[the\].work of.descent

*JPS 1917:* and on the borders that were between the stays were lions, oxen, and cherubim; and upon the stays it was in like manner above; and beneath the lions and oxen were wreaths of hanging work.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3914.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3914/): 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).