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# עֶכֶס

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5914

**anklet** — used 2 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

anklet [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5914/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֶ֫כֶס: anklet, bangle [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5914/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] anklet, bangle;—pl. abs. הָעֲכָסִים Is 3:18 bangles, anklets (as ornaments); for sg. abs. ע׳ Pr 7:22 read עֵגֶל Toy.

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

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Proverbs 7:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.7.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.7.22/#tree)

ה֤וֹלֵ֥ךְ אַחֲרֶ֗יהָ פִּ֫תְאֹ֥ם כְּ֭שׁוֹר אֶל־טָ֣בַחיָב֑וֹא וּ֝כְעֶ֗כֶס אֶל־מוּסַ֥ר אֱוִֽיל׃

*Word for word:* \[he.is\].walking behind her suddenly like an.ox \[which\].to \[the\].slaughter it.goes and like an.anklet to \[the\].chastening of.a.fool

*JPS 1917:* He goeth after her straightway, as an ox that goeth to the slaughter, or as one in fetters to the correction of the fool;

[Isaiah 3:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.3.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.3.18/#tree)

בַּיּ֨וֹם הַה֜וּא יָסִ֣יר אֲדֹנָ֗י אֵ֣ת תִּפְאֶ֧רֶת הָעֲכָסִ֛ים וְהַשְּׁבִיסִ֖ים וְהַשַּׂהֲרֹנִֽים׃

*Word for word:* in the day (the) that he.will.remove Lord \[the\] (et) the.splendor of the.anklets and the amulets and the ornaments

*JPS 1917:* In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their anklets, and the fillets, and the crescents;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5914.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5914/): 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).