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# מַחֲלָף

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4252

**knife** — 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

knife [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4252/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַחֲלָף: n.m. knife [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4252/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. knife, so 𝔙 (cf. Syriac ܚܠܰܦ, totondit (in Lex.), ܚܠܳܦܳܐ, ܚܠܘܽܦܬܳܐ knife, Talm. חליפות knives, according to Levy, Jastr; Thes as passing through (cf. vb. 3 a)); but √ and meaning not certain, only Pl. מַחֲלָפִים Ezr 1:9, among temple utensils (v. BeRy Ryle).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: 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: knives (1).

## In the verses

[Ezra 1:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.1.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.1.9/#tree)

וְאֵ֖לֶּה מִסְפָּרָ֑ם אֲגַרְטְלֵ֨י זָהָ֜ב שְׁלֹשִׁ֗ים אֲגַרְטְלֵי־כֶ֙סֶף֙ אָ֔לֶף מַחֲלָפִ֖ים תִּשְׁעָ֥ה וְעֶשְׂרִֽים׃ס

*Word for word:* and these number \[were\].their basins of.gold thirty basins of.silver one.thousand knives nine and twenty

*JPS 1917:* And this is the number of them: thirty basins of gold, a thousand basins of silver, nine and twenty knives;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4252.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4252/): 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).