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# צֶפֶת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6858

**plated capital** — 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

plated capital [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6858/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צֶ֫פֶת: n.f. plated capital [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6858/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. appar. plated capital of pillar 2 Ch 3:15.

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 (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[2 Chronicles 3:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.3.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.3.15/#tree)

וַיַּ֜עַשׂ לִפְנֵ֤י הַבַּ֙יִת֙ עַמּוּדִ֣ים שְׁנַ֔יִם אַמּ֕וֹת שְׁלֹשִׁ֥ים וְחָמֵ֖שׁ אֹ֑רֶךְ וְהַצֶּ֥פֶת אֲשֶׁר־עַל־רֹאשׁ֖וֹ אַמּ֥וֹת חָמֵֽשׁ׃ס

*Word for word:* and he.made before the house pillars two cubits thirty and five length and the capital which \[was\].on top its \[was\].cubits five

*JPS 1917:* Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five cubits high, and the capital that was on the top of each of them was five cubits.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6858.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6858/): 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).