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# מִלֻּאִים

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4394

**setting** — used 15 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

setting [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4394/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִלּוּא: n.m. setting, installation Pi. Pu.) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4394/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. setting, installation; (cf. vb. Pi. Pu.);—pl. מִלֻּאִים (מִלּוּ׳) Ex 25:7 + 13 times; מִלֻּאֵיכֶם Lv 8:33;— setting, אַבְנֵי מ׳ stones for setting Ex 25:7; 35:9, 27 cf. 1 Ch 29:2 (אַבְנֵי שֹׁ֫הַם וּמ׳). installation (of priests): Lv 7:37; 8:33; = installation-offering 8:28 (‖ אִשָּׁה) cf. סַל־הַמּ׳ v 31; אֵיל הַמּ׳ Ex 29:22, 26, 27, 3 Lv 8:22, 29; בְּשַׂר הַמ׳ Ex 29:34.

Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 14 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: installation offering(s) (6); of setting(s) (2); \[were\] installation offerings (1).

## In the verses

[Exodus 25:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.25.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.25.7/#tree)

אַבְנֵי־שֹׁ֕הַם וְאַבְנֵ֖י מִלֻּאִ֑ים לָאֵפֹ֖ד וְלַחֹֽשֶׁן׃

*Word for word:* stones of.onyx and stones of.setting(s) for the ephod and for the breastpiece

*JPS 1917:* onyx stones, and stones to be set, for the ephod, and for the breastplate.

[Exodus 35:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.35.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.35.9/#tree)

וְאַ֨בְנֵי־שֹׁ֔הַם וְאַבְנֵ֖י מִלֻּאִ֑ים לָאֵפ֖וֹד וְלַחֹֽשֶׁן׃

*Word for word:* and stones of.onyx and stones of.setting(s) for the ephod and for the breastpiece

*JPS 1917:* and onyx stones, and stones to be set, for the ephod, and for the breastplate.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4394.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4394/): 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).