[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/%D7%9E%D7%A7%D7%A6%D7%95%D7%A2/)

[dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [Biblical Hebrew](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/) / [מ](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/mem/)‎ / מִקְצֹועַ‎

# מִקְצֹועַ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4740

**place of corner-structure** — used 12 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

place of corner-structure [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4740/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִקְצֹעַ: n.m. place of corner-structure corner-buttress Pu. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4740/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Ez 46:21 place of corner-structure, (inner) corner-buttress (as (place of) cutting off of an inner angle if √ rightly expl.; v. RSl.c. 71–81);—abs. מ׳ Ne 3:19 +, צוֹעַ- Ne 3:20 +; cstr. -צֹעַ Ez 46:21(×2); pl. abs. מִקְצֹעֹת Ex 26:24; 36:29, cstr. -עוֹת Ez 46:22, מִקְצוֹעֵי v 21, also מְקֻצְעֹת Ex 26:23; 36:28 Di (not Pu. Pt. from קָצַע Thes Buhl Lex 13 al.), but read prob. מִקְצֹעֹת, so SS Baen; sf. מִקְצֹעוֹתָיו Ez 41:22;—corner-post of altar Ez 41:22, tabern. Ex 26:23, 24 = 36:28, 29; (inner) buttress-place of court, where the small corner-courts were, Ez 46:21(×3), 22; of inner (rock-?) buttress at NE. corner of wall of Jerus., הַמּ׳, nearly = n.pr., Ne 3:19, 20, 25, also (disting. from פִּנָּה) v 24 2 Ch 26:9.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 3 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: buttress (5); corners (3); the corner (2).

## In the verses

[Nehemiah 3:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.3.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.3.24/#tree)

אַחֲרָ֣יו הֶחֱזִ֗יק בִּנּ֛וּי בֶּן־חֵנָדָ֖ד מִדָּ֣ה שֵׁנִ֑ית מִבֵּ֣ית עֲזַרְיָ֔ה עַד־הַמִּקְצ֖וֹעַ וְעַד־הַפִּנָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* after him he.repaired Binnui the.son of.Henadad a.measured.portion second from the.house of.Azariah to the buttress and to the corner

*JPS 1917:* After him repaired Binnui the son of Henadad another portion, from the house of Azariah unto the Turning and unto the corner.

[Ezekiel 46:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.46.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.46.22/#tree)

בְּאַרְבַּ֜עַת מִקְצֹע֤וֹת הֶֽחָצֵר֙ חֲצֵר֣וֹת קְטֻר֔וֹת אַרְבָּעִ֣ים אֹ֔רֶךְ וּשְׁלֹשִׁ֖ים רֹ֑חַב מִדָּ֣ה אַחַ֔ת לְאַרְבַּעְתָּ֖ם מְׄהֻׄקְׄצָׄעֽׄוֹׄתׄ׃

*Word for word:* \[were\].in the.four the.corners of the.courtyard courtyards enclosed \[was\].forty.\[cubits\] \[the\].length and.\[was\] thirty.\[cubits\] \[the\].breadth measurement one \[belonged\].to the.four of.them set.in.corners

*JPS 1917:* In the four corners of the court there were courts inclosed, forty cubits long and thirty broad; these four in the corners were of one measure.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4740.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4740/): 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).