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# מָנוֹר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4500

**beam** — 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

beam [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4500/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מָנוֹר²: n.m. beam [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4500/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. beam (prob. round) carrying the heddles (in loom), = Lat. jugum, so GFM l.c.;—only cstr. in phr. כִּמְנוֹר אֹרְגִים beam of weavers 1 S 17:7 2 S 21:19 = 1 Ch 20:5, 1 Ch 11:23, all sim. of thick and heavy shaft of spear.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 1 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, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a beam (4).

## In the verses

[1 Samuel 17:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.17.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.17.7/#tree)

וְעֵ֣ץ חֲנִית֗וֹ כִּמְנוֹר֙ אֹֽרְגִ֔ים וְלַהֶ֣בֶת חֲנִית֔וֹ שֵׁשׁ־מֵא֥וֹת שְׁקָלִ֖ים בַּרְזֶ֑ל וְנֹשֵׂ֥א הַצִּנָּ֖ה הֹלֵ֥ךְ לְפָנָֽיו׃

*Word for word:* and the.wood his.spear his \[was\].like a.beam of.weavers and the.blade his.spear his \[was\].six hundred(s) shekels iron and the.bearer of the.body.shield \[was\].walking before him

*JPS 1917:* And the shaft of his spear was like a weaver's beam; and his spear's head weighed six hundred shekels of iron; and his shield-bearer went before him.

[1 Chronicles 20:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.20.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.20.5/#tree)

וַתְּהִי־ע֥וֹד מִלְחָמָ֖ה אֶת־פְּלִשְׁתִּ֑ים וַיַּ֞ךְ אֶלְחָנָ֣ן בֶּן־יָעִ֗יר אֶת־לַחְמִי֙ אֲחִי֙ גָּלְיָ֣ת הַגִּתִּ֔י וְעֵ֣ץ חֲנִית֔וֹ כִּמְנ֖וֹר אֹרְגִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and it.was again a.battle with \[the\].Philistines and he.struck.down Elhanan the.son of.Jair (et) Lahmi the.brother of.Goliath the Gittite and the.wood his.spear his \[was\].like a.beam of.weavers

*JPS 1917:* And there was again war with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son of Jair slew Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4500/): 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).