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# מֶרְכָּב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4817

**chariot** — used 3 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

chariot [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4817/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מֶרְכָּב²: n.m. chariot, riding-seat [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4817/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Lv 15, 9 chariot, riding-seat (proposes riding-place);— chariot (= foll.), sf. סוּסִים לְמֶרְכָּבוֹ 1 K 5:6. abs. מ׳, prob. saddle Lv 15:9 (P). מֶרְכָּבוֹ seat of litter Ct 3:10.

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

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Leviticus 15:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.15.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.15.9/#tree)

וְכָל־הַמֶּרְכָּ֗ב אֲשֶׁ֨ר יִרְכַּ֥ב עָלָ֛יו הַזָּ֖ב יִטְמָֽא׃

*Word for word:* and every (the) saddle which he.will.ride on it the.\[one\] discharging it.will.be.unclean

*JPS 1917:* And what saddle soever he that hath the issue rideth upon shall be unclean.

[1 Kings 5:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.5.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.5.6/#tree)

וַיְהִ֣י לִשְׁלֹמֹ֗ה אַרְבָּעִ֥ים אֶ֛לֶף אֻרְוֺ֥ת סוּסִ֖ים לְמֶרְכָּב֑וֹ וּשְׁנֵים־עָשָׂ֥ר אֶ֖לֶף פָּרָשִֽׁים׃

*Word for word:* and it.belonged to Solomon forty thousand stalls of.horses for chariotry his and two.plus ten thousand horsemen

*JPS 1917:* And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4817.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4817/): 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).