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# מִקְלַעַת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4734

**carving** — 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

carving [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4734/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִקְלַ֫עַת²: n.f. carving [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4734/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. carving;—cstr. מ׳ 1 K 6:18; pl. abs. מִקְלָעוֹת 7:31; cstr. מִקְלְעוֹת (after קַלָע) 6:29, 32.

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: carvings (2); \[was\] carving (1); of carvings (1).

## In the verses

[1 Kings 6:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.6.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.6.18/#tree)

וְאֶ֤רֶז אֶל־הַבַּ֙יִת֙ פְּנִ֔ימָה מִקְלַ֣עַת פְּקָעִ֔ים וּפְטוּרֵ֖י צִצִּ֑ים הַכֹּ֣ל אֶ֔רֶז אֵ֥ין אֶ֖בֶן נִרְאָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and cedar to the house within \[was\].carving of.gourds and spread.out.\[things\] of.blossoms (the) everything \[was\].cedar there.\[was\].not stone visible

*JPS 1917:* And the cedar on the house within was carved with knops and open flowers; all was cedar; there was no stone seen.

[1 Kings 6:29](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.6.29/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.6.29/#tree)

וְאֵת֩ כָּל־קִיר֨וֹת הַבַּ֜יִת מֵסַ֣ב ׀ קָלַ֗ע פִּתּוּחֵי֙ מִקְלְעוֹת֙ כְּרוּבִ֣ים וְתִֽמֹרֹ֔ת וּפְטוּרֵ֖י צִצִּ֑ים מִלִּפְנִ֖ים וְלַחִיצֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* and (et) all the.walls of the.house round.about he.carved engravings of.carvings of.cherubim and palm.trees and spread.out.\[things\] of.blossoms from to faces and to the outer

*JPS 1917:* And he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of cherubim and palm-trees and open flowers, within and without.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4734/): 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).