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# מַנְעוּל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4514

**bolt** — used 6 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

bolt [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4514/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַנְעוּל²: bolt [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4514/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] bolt;—abs. כַּפּוֹת הַמּ׳ Ct 5:5 (of house-door); pl. sf. מַנְעוּלָיו Ne 3:3, מַנְעֻלָיו v 6, 13, 14, 15, all of city-gates, in phr. דַּלְתֹתָיו (וּ)מַנ׳ וּבְרִיחָיו.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: bolts (5); the bolt (1).

## In the verses

[Nehemiah 3:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.3.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.3.3/#tree)

וְאֵת֙ שַׁ֣עַר הַדָּגִ֔ים בָּנ֖וּ בְּנֵ֣י הַסְּנָאָ֑ה הֵ֣מָּה קֵר֔וּהוּ וַֽיַּעֲמִ֙ידוּ֙ דַּלְתֹתָ֔יו מַנְעוּלָ֖יו וּבְרִיחָֽיו׃ס

*Word for word:* and (et) the.gate of the.fish(es) they.rebuilt the.sons of.(the) Senaah they they made.beams.for.it and they.set.up doors its bolts its and bars its

*JPS 1917:* And the fish gate did the sons of Hassenaah build; they laid the beams thereof, and set up the doors thereof, the bolts thereof, and the bars thereof.

[Song of Songs 5:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.5.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.5.5/#tree)

קַ֥מְתִּֽי אֲנִ֖י לִפְתֹּ֣חַ לְדוֹדִ֑י וְיָדַ֣י נָֽטְפוּ־מ֗וֹר וְאֶצְבְּעֹתַי֙ מ֣וֹר עֹבֵ֔ר עַ֖ל כַּפּ֥וֹת הַמַּנְעֽוּל׃

*Word for word:* I.arose I to open to lover my and hands my they.dripped myrrh and fingers my myrrh flowing on the.handles of the.bolt

*JPS 1917:* I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with flowing myrrh, upon the handles of the bar.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4514.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4514/): 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).