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# מַעֲרֶכֶת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4635

**row** — used 10 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

row [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4635/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַעֲרֶ֫כֶת: n.f. row, line [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4635/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. row, line;—only of the rows of ‘shew’-bread; abs. מ׳ Lv 24:7, מַעֲרָ֑כֶת v 6 (P); elsewhere Chr: לֶחֶם הַמּ׳ 1 Ch 9:32; 23:29; Ne 10:34, שֻׁלְחַן הַמּ׳ 2 Ch 29:18, cf. 1 Ch 28:16; cstr. מַעֲרֶכֶת לֶחֶם 2 Ch 13:11 the row of bread, so מ׳ תָּמִיד 2:3 the row of continuity, bread continually present in rows; pl. abs. שׁתַּיִם מַעֲרָכוֹת Lv 24:6.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 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: the row (5); row (4); rows (1).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 9:32](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.9.32/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.9.32/#tree)

וּמִן־בְּנֵ֧י הַקְּהָתִ֛י מִן־אֲחֵיהֶ֖ם עַל־לֶ֣חֶם הַֽמַּעֲרָ֑כֶת לְהָכִ֖ין שַׁבַּ֥ת שַׁבָּֽת׃ס

*Word for word:* and some.of the.sons of the.Kohathite\[s\] some.of relatives their \[were\].over the.bread of the.row to prepare.\[it\] sabbath sabbath

*JPS 1917:* And some of their brethren, of the sons of the Kohathites, were over the showbread, to prepare it every sabbath.

[Leviticus 24:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.24.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.24.6/#tree)

וְשַׂמְתָּ֥ אוֹתָ֛ם שְׁתַּ֥יִם מַֽעֲרָכ֖וֹת שֵׁ֣שׁ הַֽמַּעֲרָ֑כֶת עַ֛ל הַשֻּׁלְחָ֥ן הַטָּהֹ֖ר לִפְנֵ֥י יְהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and you.will.place them two rows six the row on the table (the) pure before Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* And thou shalt set them in two rows, six in a row, upon the pure table before the LORD.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4635.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4635/): 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).