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# צִפּוּי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6826

**plating** — used 5 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

plating [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6826/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צִפּוּי: plating [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6826/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] metal plating;—of idols Is 30:22, capitals Ex 38:17, 19, altar Nu 17:3, 4.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 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: the plating (3); plating (2).

## In the verses

[Exodus 38:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.38.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.38.19/#tree)

וְעַמֻּֽדֵיהֶם֙ אַרְבָּעָ֔ה וְאַדְנֵיהֶ֥ם אַרְבָּעָ֖ה נְחֹ֑שֶׁת וָוֵיהֶ֣ם כֶּ֔סֶף וְצִפּ֧וּי רָאשֵׁיהֶ֛ם וַחֲשֻׁקֵיהֶ֖ם כָּֽסֶף׃

*Word for word:* and pillars their \[were\].four and bases their four \[were\].bronze hooks their \[were\].silver and the.plating their.tops their and bands their \[were\].silver

*JPS 1917:* And their pillars were four, and their sockets four, of brass; their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their capitals and their fillets of silver.

[Numbers 17:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.17.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.17.4/#tree)

וַיִּקַּ֞ח אֶלְעָזָ֣ר הַכֹּהֵ֗ן אֵ֚ת מַחְתּ֣וֹת הַנְּחֹ֔שֶׁת אֲשֶׁ֥ר הִקְרִ֖יבוּ הַשְּׂרֻפִ֑ים וַֽיְרַקְּע֖וּם צִפּ֥וּי לַמִּזְבֵּֽחַ׃

*Word for word:* and he.took Eleazar the priest (et) the.censers of.(the) bronze which they.had.brought.near \[those who.were\].burned and people beat.them.out plating for the altar

*JPS 1917:* And Eleazar the priest took the brazen fire-pans, which they that were burnt had offered; and they beat them out for a covering of the altar,

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6826.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6826/): 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).