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# מְשֻׁקָּד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8246

**cups shaped like almond** — used 6 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

cups shaped like almond [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/8246/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שָׁקַד²: vb. denom. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/8246/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. denom.—only Pt. pl. in גְּבִעִים מְשֻׁקָּדִים cups shaped like almond (blossoms) Ex 25:33(×2), 34; 37:19(×2), 20 (all P).

Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech differs, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: another headword, part of speech differs, 4 words shared with the BDB entry, 3 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: shaped like almond blossoms (6).

## In the verses

[Exodus 25:34](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.25.34/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.25.34/#tree)

וּבַמְּנֹרָ֖ה אַרְבָּעָ֣ה גְבִעִ֑ים מְשֻׁקָּדִ֔ים כַּפְתֹּרֶ֖יהָ וּפְרָחֶֽיהָ׃

*Word for word:* and \[will be\] on.the.lampstand four cups shaped.like.almond.blossoms bulbs its and blossoms its

*JPS 1917:* And in the candlestick four cups made like almond-blossoms, the knops thereof, and the flowers thereof.

[Exodus 37:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.37.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.37.20/#tree)

וּבַמְּנֹרָ֖ה אַרְבָּעָ֣ה גְבִעִ֑ים מְשֻׁ֨קָּדִ֔ים כַּפְתֹּרֶ֖יהָ וּפְרָחֶֽיהָ׃

*Word for word:* and.\[were\] on the lampstand four cups shaped.like.almond.blossoms bulbs its and blossoms its

*JPS 1917:* And in the candlestick were four cups made like almond-blossoms, the knops thereof, and the flowers thereof;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8246.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/8246/): 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).