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# מִקְשָׁה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4749

**hammered work** — used 9 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

hammered work [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4749/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִקְשָׁה⁴: n.f. hammered work [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4749/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. perhaps hammered work, only of metals (orig. turner’s work?);—abs. מ׳, of cherubim in tabern. Ex 25:18; 37:7, lamp-stand 25:31, 36; 37:17, 22 Nu 8:4(×2), clarions 10:2.—i. מ׳ v. קשׁא.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 2 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, 2 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: hammered work (6); \[was\] hammered work (2); \[will be\] hammered work (1).

## In the verses

[Exodus 25:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.25.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.25.18/#tree)

וְעָשִׂ֛יתָ שְׁנַ֥יִם כְּרֻבִ֖ים זָהָ֑ב מִקְשָׁה֙ תַּעֲשֶׂ֣ה אֹתָ֔ם מִשְּׁנֵ֖י קְצ֥וֹת הַכַּפֹּֽרֶת׃

*Word for word:* and you.will.make two cherubim gold hammered.work you.will.make them from the.two the.ends of the.atonement.cover

*JPS 1917:* And thou shalt make two cherubim of gold; of beaten work shalt thou make them, at the two ends of the ark-cover.

[Exodus 25:36](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.25.36/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.25.36/#tree)

כַּפְתֹּרֵיהֶ֥ם וּקְנֹתָ֖ם מִמֶּ֣נָּה יִהְי֑וּ כֻּלָּ֛הּ מִקְשָׁ֥ה אַחַ֖ת זָהָ֥ב טָהֽוֹר׃

*Word for word:* bulbs their and branches their from it they.will.be of.it all \[will.be\].hammered.work one gold pure

*JPS 1917:* Their knops and their branches shall be of one piece with it; the whole of it one beaten work of pure gold.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4749.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4749/): 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).