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# מַעֲקֶה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4624

**parapet** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

parapet [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4624/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַעֲקֶה²: parapet [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4624/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] parapet;—Dt 22:8.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 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: a parapet (1).

## In the verses

[Deuteronomy 22:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.22.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.22.8/#tree)

כִּ֤י תִבְנֶה֙ בַּ֣יִת חָדָ֔שׁ וְעָשִׂ֥יתָ מַעֲקֶ֖ה לְגַגֶּ֑ךָ וְלֹֽא־תָשִׂ֤ים דָּמִים֙ בְּבֵיתֶ֔ךָ כִּֽי־יִפֹּ֥ל הַנֹּפֵ֖ל מִמֶּֽנּוּ׃ס

*Word for word:* (dm) you.will.build a.house new and you.will.make a.parapet for roof your and not you.will.put blood(s) on house your (dm) he.will.fall the.\[one who\].falls from it

*JPS 1917:* When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a parapet for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thy house, if any man fall from thence.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4624.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4624/): 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).