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# מַחְבֶּרֶת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4225

**thing joined** — used 8 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/1502/4225/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַחְבֶּ֫רֶת: n.f. thing joined, place of joining [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4225/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. thing joined, place of joining;—abs. מ׳ Ex 26:4 + 3 times; מַחְבָּ֑רֶת Ex 36:11, 17; sf. מַחְבַּרְתּוֹ Ex 28:27; 39:20;— thing joined, of curtain-pieces of tabernacle (cf. חֹבֶרֶת), Ex 26:4, 5; 36:11(×2), 12. place of joining: of the curtains Ex 36:17. of shoulder-pieces of the ephod Ex 28:27; 39:20 (all P).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 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: set (6); joining (2).

## In the verses

[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.

[Exodus 36:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.36.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.36.11/#tree)

וַיַּ֜עַשׂ לֻֽלְאֹ֣ת תְּכֵ֗לֶת עַ֣ל שְׂפַ֤ת הַיְרִיעָה֙ הָֽאֶחָ֔ת מִקָּצָ֖ה בַּמַּחְבָּ֑רֶת כֵּ֤ן עָשָׂה֙ בִּשְׂפַ֣ת הַיְרִיעָ֔ה הַקִּ֣יצוֹנָ֔ה בַּמַּחְבֶּ֖רֶת הַשֵּׁנִֽית׃

*Word for word:* and he.made loops of.violet.stuff on the.edge of the.curtain (the) one from an.end in the.joined set thus he.did on the.edge of the.curtain (the) outermost in the.joined set (the) second

*JPS 1917:* And he made loops of blue upon the edge of the one curtain that was outmost in the first set; likewise he made in the edge of the curtain that was outmost in the second set.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4225/): 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).