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# מִכְנָס

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4370

**drawers** — used 5 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

drawers [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4370/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִכְנָס: n.m. drawers [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4370/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Ez 44:18 only du. (or pl.) drawers (connex. with above √ כנס obscure; Di der. from כנס = גנז cover up, hide (cf. Du Is 28:20), which Thes also comp.)—only cstr. מִכְנְסֵי;—a priestly garment of linen מִכְנְסֵי פִשְׁתִּים Ez 44:18; מִכְנְסֵי (הַ)בָּד Ex 28:42; 39:28 Lv 6:3; 16:4 (all P).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 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: undergarments (4); the undergarments (1).

## In the verses

[Exodus 28:42](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.28.42/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.28.42/#tree)

וַעֲשֵׂ֤ה לָהֶם֙ מִכְנְסֵי־בָ֔ד לְכַסּ֖וֹת בְּשַׂ֣ר עֶרְוָ֑ה מִמָּתְנַ֥יִם וְעַד־יְרֵכַ֖יִם יִהְיֽוּ׃

*Word for word:* and make for them undergarments of.linen to cover \[the\].flesh of.nakedness from.\[the\] hips and to \[the\].thighs they.will.be

*JPS 1917:* And thou shalt make them linen breeches to cover the flesh of their nakedness; from the loins even unto the thighs they shall reach.

[Exodus 39:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.39.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.39.28/#tree)

וְאֵת֙ הַמִּצְנֶ֣פֶת שֵׁ֔שׁ וְאֶת־פַּאֲרֵ֥י הַמִּגְבָּעֹ֖ת שֵׁ֑שׁ וְאֶת־מִכְנְסֵ֥י הַבָּ֖ד שֵׁ֥שׁ מָשְׁזָֽר׃

*Word for word:* and (et) the turban fine.linen and (et) the.head-wraps of the.headdresses fine.linen and (et) the.undergarments of.(the) linen fine.linen twisted

*JPS 1917:* and the mitre of fine linen, and the goodly head-tires of fine linen, and the linen breeches of fine twined linen,

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4370.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4370/): 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).