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# מִגְרָעֹות

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4052

**recess** — 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

recess [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4052/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִגְרָעָה: n.f. recess, rebatement ledge [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4052/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. recess, rebatement (RV), i.e. ledge, only pl., נָתַן מִגְרָעוֹת לבית 1 K 6:6.

Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: ledges (1).

## In the verses

[1 Kings 6:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.6.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.6.6/#tree)

הַיָּצִ֨יעַ הַתַּחְתֹּנָ֜ה חָמֵ֧שׁ בָּאַמָּ֣ה רָחְבָּ֗הּ וְהַתִּֽיכֹנָה֙ שֵׁ֤שׁ בָּֽאַמָּה֙ רָחְבָּ֔הּ וְהַ֨שְּׁלִישִׁ֔ית שֶׁ֥בַע בָּאַמָּ֖ה רָחְבָּ֑הּ כִּ֡י מִגְרָעוֹת֩ נָתַ֨ן לַבַּ֤יִת סָבִיב֙ ח֔וּצָה לְבִלְתִּ֖י אֲחֹ֥ז בְּקִֽירוֹת־הַבָּֽיִת׃

*Word for word:* the extension (the) lower \[was\].five by the cubit breadth its and the.middle \[extension\] \[was\].six by the cubit breadth its and.(the) third \[extension\] \[was\].seven by the cubit breadth its (dm) ledges he.made for the house around the.outside to to not to.have.hold in the.walls of the.house

*JPS 1917:* the nethermost story of the side-structure was five cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad; for on the outside he made rebatements in the wall of the house round about, that the beams should not have hold in the walls of the house. —

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4052.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4052/): 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).