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# מַרְצֶפֶת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4837

**pavement** — 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

pavement [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4837/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַרְצֶ֫פֶת²: n.f. id. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4837/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. id.;—cstr. מ׳ אֲבָנִים 2 K 16:17.

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 (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[2 Kings 16:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.16.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.16.17/#tree)

וַיְקַצֵּץ֩ הַמֶּ֨לֶךְ אָחָ֜ז אֶת־הַמִּסְגְּר֣וֹת הַמְּכֹנ֗וֹת וַיָּ֤סַר מֵֽעֲלֵיהֶם֙ אֶת־הַכִּיֹּ֔ר וְאֶת־הַיָּ֣ם הוֹרִ֔ד מֵעַ֛ל הַבָּקָ֥ר הַנְּחֹ֖שֶׁת אֲשֶׁ֣ר תַּחְתֶּ֑יהָ וַיִּתֵּ֣ן אֹת֔וֹ עַ֖ל מַרְצֶ֥פֶת אֲבָנִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and he.cut.off the king Ahaz (et) the rims the stands and he.removed from on them (et) the laver and (et) the sea he.took.down from on the ox\[en\] the bronze which \[were\].under it and he.put it on a.pavement of.stone(s)

*JPS 1917:* And king Ahaz cut off the borders of the bases, and removed the laver from off them; and took down the sea from off the brazen oxen that were under it, and put it upon a pavement of stone.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4837/): 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).