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# מְקָרֶה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4746

**beam-work** — 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

beam-work [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4746/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מְקָרֶה: beam-work [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4746/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] beam-work;—Ec 10:18.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: rafter\[s\] (1).

## In the verses

[Ecclesiastes 10:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.10.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.10.18/#tree)

בַּעֲצַלְתַּ֖יִם יִמַּ֣ךְ הַמְּקָרֶ֑ה וּבְשִׁפְל֥וּת יָדַ֖יִם יִדְלֹ֥ף הַבָּֽיִת׃

*Word for word:* in laziness(es) it.comes.low the rafter\[s\] and in lowering of.hands it.leaks the house

*JPS 1917:* By slothfulness the rafters sink in; and through idleness of the hands the house leaketh.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4746/): 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).