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# מְכוֹנָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4350

**fixed resting-place** — used 25 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

fixed resting-place [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4350/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מְכוֹנָה: n.f. fixed resting-place, base [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4350/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. fixed resting-place, base;—abs. מ׳ 1 K 7:27 + 5 times; מְכֹנָה 1 K 7:34(×2), 35; sf. מְכֻנָתָהּ Zc 5:11 (Ges§ 27, 3. R. 1); pl. מְכוֹנוֹת Je 27:19, מְכֹנֹת 1 K 7:27 + 12 times; sf. מְכוֹנֹתָ֯ו Ezr 3:3;—base or stand of laver כִּיּוֹר 1 K 7:27(×2) + 13 times 1 K 7, 2 K 16:17; 25:13, 16 = Je 52:17, 20, Je 27:19 2 Ch 4:14(×2); of altar Ezr 3:3; of the symbol. ephah Zc 5:11.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 12 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: stands (14); the stand (5); stand (4).

## In the verses

[1 Kings 7:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.7.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.7.28/#tree)

וְזֶ֛ה מַעֲשֵׂ֥ה הַמְּכוֹנָ֖ה מִסְגְּרֹ֣ת לָהֶ֑ם וּמִסְגְּרֹ֖ת בֵּ֥ין הַשְׁלַבִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* and this \[was\].the.work of the.stand rims \[belonged\].to them and rims \[were\].between the.cross bars

*JPS 1917:* And the work of the bases was on this manner: they had borders; and there were borders between the stays;

[1 Kings 7:43](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.7.43/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.7.43/#tree)

וְאֶת־הַמְּכֹנ֖וֹת עָ֑שֶׂר וְאֶת־הַכִּיֹּרֹ֥ת עֲשָׂרָ֖ה עַל־הַמְּכֹנֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* and (et) the stands ten and (et) the lavers ten on the stands

*JPS 1917:* and the ten bases, and the ten lavers on the bases;

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4350/): 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).