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# מֶחֱזָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4237

**light** — used 4 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

light [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4237/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מֶחֱזָה: n.f. light, place of seeing, window [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4237/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. light, place of seeing, window, מֶחֱזָה אֶל־מֶחֱזָה light over against light 1 K 7:4(×2), 5(×2).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: window (4).

## In the verses

[1 Kings 7:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.7.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.7.4/#tree)

וּשְׁקֻפִ֖ים שְׁלֹשָׁ֣ה טוּרִ֑ים וּמֶחֱזָ֥ה אֶל־מֶחֱזָ֖ה שָׁלֹ֥שׁ פְּעָמִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and window.frames three rows and window \[was\].to window three times

*JPS 1917:* And there were beams in three rows; and light was over against light in three ranks.

[1 Kings 7:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.7.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.7.5/#tree)

וְכָל־הַפְּתָחִ֥ים וְהַמְּזוּז֖וֹת רְבֻעִ֣ים שָׁ֑קֶף וּמ֧וּל מֶחֱזָ֛ה אֶל־מֶחֱזָ֖ה שָׁלֹ֥שׁ פְּעָמִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and all the openings and the doorposts \[were\].square frame-work and.\[the\] front window \[was\].to window three times

*JPS 1917:* And all the doors with their posts were square in the frame; and light was over against light in three ranks.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4237/): 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).