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# מְקֵרָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4747

**coolness** — used 2 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

coolness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4747/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מְקֵרָה²: n.f. coolness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4747/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. coolness;—abs. מ׳ of chamber: עֲלִיַּת הַמּ׳ Ju 3:20 = חֲדַר הַמּ׳ v 24.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: coolness (2).

## In the verses

[Judges 3:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.3.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.3.24/#tree)

וְה֤וּא יָצָא֙ וַעֲבָדָ֣יו בָּ֔אוּ וַיִּרְא֕וּ וְהִנֵּ֛ה דַּלְת֥וֹת הָעֲלִיָּ֖ה נְעֻל֑וֹת וַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ אַ֣ךְ מֵסִ֥יךְ ה֛וּא אֶת־רַגְלָ֖יו בַּחֲדַ֥ר הַמְּקֵרָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he he.went.forth and servants his they.came and they.saw and there! the.doors of the.roof.chamber \[were\].locked and they.said surely \[is\].covering he (et) feet his in the.chamber of.(the) coolness

*JPS 1917:* Now when he was gone out, his servants came; and they saw, and, behold, the doors of the upper chamber were locked; and they said: 'Surely he is covering his feet in the cabinet of the cool chamber.'

[Judges 3:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.3.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.3.20/#tree)

וְאֵה֣וּד ׀ בָּ֣א אֵלָ֗יו וְהֽוּא־יֹ֠שֵׁב בַּעֲלִיַּ֨ת הַמְּקֵרָ֤ה אֲשֶׁר־לוֹ֙ לְבַדּ֔וֹ וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֵה֔וּד דְּבַר־אֱלֹהִ֥ים לִ֖י אֵלֶ֑יךָ וַיָּ֖קָם מֵעַ֥ל הַכִּסֵּֽא׃

*Word for word:* and Ehud he.came to him and he \[was\].sitting in the.roof.chamber of.(the) coolness which \[belonged\].to him him alone and he.said Ehud a.word of.God \[belongs\].to me to you and he.rose from on the throne

*JPS 1917:* And Ehud came unto him; and he was sitting by himself alone in his cool upper chamber. And Ehud said: 'I have a message from God unto thee.' And he arose out of his seat.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4747/): 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).