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# מְחַבְּרֹות

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4226

**thing joined** — used 2 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

thing joined [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4226/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מְחַבְּרָה: n.f. binder, clamp, joint [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4226/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. binder, clamp, joint, only pl. abs. מְחַבְּרוֹת, of iron, clamps or the like, 1 Ch 22:3; of wood, binder, or coupling, 2 Ch 34:11.

Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: clamps (2).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 22:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.22.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.22.3/#tree)

וּבַרְזֶ֣ל ׀ לָ֠רֹב לַֽמִּסְמְרִ֞ים לְדַלְת֧וֹת הַשְּׁעָרִ֛ים וְלַֽמְחַבְּר֖וֹת הֵכִ֣ין דָּוִ֑יד וּנְחֹ֥שֶׁת לָרֹ֖ב אֵ֥ין מִשְׁקָֽל׃

*Word for word:* and iron to abundance for the nails for the.doors of the.gates and for the clamps he.prepared David and bronze to abundance there.\[was\].not weight

*JPS 1917:* And David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors of the gates, and for the couplings; and brass in abundance without weight;

[2 Chronicles 34:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.34.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.34.11/#tree)

וַֽיִּתְּנ֗וּ לֶחָֽרָשִׁים֙ וְלַבֹּנִ֔ים לִקְנוֹת֙ אַבְנֵ֣י מַחְצֵ֔ב וְעֵצִ֖ים לַֽמְחַבְּר֑וֹת וּלְקָרוֹת֙ אֶת־הַבָּ֣תִּ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר הִשְׁחִ֖יתוּ מַלְכֵ֥י יְהוּדָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and they.gave.\[it\] to the craftsmen and to the builders to acquire stones of.hewing and wood(s) for the clamps and to make.beams.for (et) the houses which they.had.ruined the.kings of.Judah

*JPS 1917:* even to the carpenters and to the builders gave they it, to buy hewn stone, and timber for couplings, and to make beams for the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4226.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4226/): 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).