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# לֻלָאֹת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3924

**loop** — used 13 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

loop [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3924/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

לוּלַי: n.f. loop [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3924/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. loop (probably from לולו; cf. \[דוּדַי\] p. 188 supra; ZehnpfBAS i. 635, comp. Assyrian lu-lu, ‘Schleife’);—only pl. abs. לֻֽלָאֹת Ex 26:5(×3) + 8 times, cstr. לֻלְאֹת Ex 26:4; 36:11;—loops on edges of curtains of tabernacle, matching the hooks (קְרָסִים), for joining the curtains: Ex 26:4, 5(×3), 10(×2), 11; 36:11, 12(×3), 17(×2) (all P).

Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: another 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: loops (13).

## In the verses

[Exodus 26:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.26.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.26.11/#tree)

וְעָשִׂ֛יתָ קַרְסֵ֥י נְחֹ֖שֶׁת חֲמִשִּׁ֑ים וְהֵבֵאתָ֤ אֶת־הַקְּרָסִים֙ בַּלֻּ֣לָאֹ֔ת וְחִבַּרְתָּ֥ אֶת־הָאֹ֖הֶל וְהָיָ֥ה אֶחָֽד׃

*Word for word:* and you.will.make hooks of.bronze fifty and you.will.put (et) the hooks in the loops and you.will.join.together (et) the tent and it.will.be one

*JPS 1917:* And thou shalt make fifty clasps of brass, and put the clasps into the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one.

[Exodus 36:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.36.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.36.17/#tree)

וַיַּ֜עַשׂ לֻֽלָאֹ֣ת חֲמִשִּׁ֗ים עַ֚ל שְׂפַ֣ת הַיְרִיעָ֔ה הַקִּיצֹנָ֖ה בַּמַּחְבָּ֑רֶת וַחֲמִשִּׁ֣ים לֻלָאֹ֗ת עָשָׂה֙ עַל־שְׂפַ֣ת הַיְרִיעָ֔ה הַחֹבֶ֖רֶת הַשֵּׁנִֽית׃

*Word for word:* and he.made loops fifty on the.edge of the.curtain (the) outermost in the.joined set and fifty loops he.made on the.edge of the.curtain the.joined set (the) second

*JPS 1917:* And he made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that was outmost in the first set, and fifty loops made he upon the edge of the curtain which was outmost in the second set.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3924.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3924/): 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).