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# מַרְאָה

Biblical Hebrew

**mirror** — 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

mirror [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b7_5e8_5b0_5d0_5b8_5d4/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַרְאָה²: n.f. mirror [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b7_5e8_5b0_5d0_5b8_5d4/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. mirror (so Vrss; as place, or instrument, of seeing (oneself));—pl. cstr. מַרְאֹת הַצֹּבְאֹת Ex 38:8 (P) the mirrors of the serving-women (v. Di).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Exodus 38:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.38.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.38.8/#tree)

וַיַּ֗עַשׂ אֵ֚ת הַכִּיּ֣וֹר נְחֹ֔שֶׁת וְאֵ֖ת כַּנּ֣וֹ נְחֹ֑שֶׁת בְּמַרְאֹת֙ הַצֹּ֣בְאֹ֔ת אֲשֶׁ֣ר צָֽבְא֔וּ פֶּ֖תַח אֹ֥הֶל מוֹעֵֽד׃ס

*Word for word:* and he.made (et) the laver bronze and (et) base its bronze with the.mirrors of the.serving.\[women\] who they.served the.entrance of.the.tent of.meeting

*JPS 1917:* And he made the laver of brass, and the base thereof of brass, of the mirrors of the serving women that did service at the door of the tent of meeting.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b7_5e8_5b0_5d0_5b8_5d4/): 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).