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# עֶשֶׁת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6247

**plate** — 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

plate [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6247/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֶ֫שֶׁת: plate [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6247/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] plate (as smooth, shiny? NH id., lump or bar of metal);—cstr. ע׳ שֵׁן Ct 5:14 a plate of ivory (Löw in Buhl Lex Bu).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[are\] a plate (1).

## In the verses

[Song of Songs 5:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.5.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.5.14/#tree)

יָדָיו֙ גְּלִילֵ֣י זָהָ֔ב מְמֻלָּאִ֖ים בַּתַּרְשִׁ֑ישׁ מֵעָיו֙ עֶ֣שֶׁת שֵׁ֔ן מְעֻלֶּ֖פֶת סַפִּירִֽים׃

*Word for word:* hands his \[are\].rods of.gold filled with (the) chrysolite parts his.lower \[are\].a.plate of.ivory covered sapphires

*JPS 1917:* His hands are as rods of gold set with beryl; his body is as polished ivory overlaid with sapphires.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6247/): 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).