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# עֲלִיל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5948

**furnace** — 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

furnace [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5948/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

**The whole BDB entry:** appar. n.\[m.\], only כֶּסֶף צָרוּף בַּע׳ לָאָרֶץ ψ 12:7, usually (after 𝔗 כּוּרָא) furnace, crucible (Hup from III. עלל; De al. workshop, from I. עלל), but wholly dub.; NH openly LevyNHWB iii. 654; Che Du del. as gloss; cf. discussion CheExpos. Times viii. 236, 336 Ne ib. 287, 379.

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 (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Psalms 12:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.12.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.12.7/#tree)

אִֽמֲר֣וֹת יְהוָה֮ אֲמָר֪וֹת טְהֹ֫ר֥וֹת כֶּ֣סֶף צָ֭רוּף בַּעֲלִ֣יל לָאָ֑רֶץ מְ֝זֻקָּ֗ק שִׁבְעָתָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* the.words of.Yahweh \[are\].words pure silver refined in a.crucible of the earth refined sevenfold

*JPS 1917:* The words of the LORD are pure words, as silver tried in a crucible on the earth, refined seven times.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5948.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5948/): 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).