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# עֲרוּגָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6170

**garden terrace** — used 4 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

garden terrace [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6170/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֲרוּגָה: n.f. garden terrace bed [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6170/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. garden terrace or bed;—cstr. עֲרוּגַת הַבֹּשֶׂם Ct 5:13 bed of balsam (sim.); pl. cstr. עֲרֻגוֹת הַבּ׳ 6:2, ע׳ מַטָּעָהּ Ez 17:7 i.e. where the vine was planted, עֲרֻגֹת צִמְחָהּ v 10 (all fig.).

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

## In the verses

[Song of Songs 5:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.5.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.5.13/#tree)

לְחָיָו֙ כַּעֲרוּגַ֣ת הַבֹּ֔שֶׂם מִגְדְּל֖וֹת מֶרְקָחִ֑ים שִׂפְתוֹתָיו֙ שֽׁוֹשַׁנִּ֔ים נֹטְפ֖וֹת מ֥וֹר עֹבֵֽר׃

*Word for word:* cheeks his \[are\].like.(the) bed of.(the) spice towers of.aromatic.herbs lips his \[are\].lilies dripping myrrh flowing

*JPS 1917:* His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as banks of sweet herbs; his lips are as lilies, dropping with flowing myrrh.

[Song of Songs 6:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.6.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.6.2/#tree)

דּוֹדִי֙ יָרַ֣ד לְגַנּ֔וֹ לַעֲרוּג֖וֹת הַבֹּ֑שֶׂם לִרְעוֹת֙ בַּגַּנִּ֔ים וְלִלְקֹ֖ט שֽׁוֹשַׁנִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* lover my he.has.gone.down to garden his to the.beds of.(the) spice to graze in the gardens and to gather lilies

*JPS 1917:* 'My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6170/): 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).