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# קוֹרָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6982

**rafter** — 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

rafter [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6982/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קוֹרָה²: n.f. rafter, beam [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6982/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. rafter, beam (proposes a thing meeting, fitting into, another);—sf. קֹרָתִי Gn 19:8 (J) =my roof-tree; pl. קֹרוֹת rafters, abs. 2 Ch 3:7, cstr. ‖ 1 K 6:15b (reading קוֹרוֹת הַסִּכֻּן 𝔊 Th Kit Benz, for MT קִירוֹת), + 7:7b (reading הַקּוֹרוֹת for הַקַּרְקָ֑ע, v. ק׳); Ct 1:17 (‖ רחיטנו Kt, רָהִיטֵנוּ Qr); more gen. beam, sg. abs. קוֹרָה 2 K 6:2, 5.

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 (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 beam (1); beam (1); beams (1).

## In the verses

[Song of Songs 1:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.1.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.1.17/#tree)

קֹר֤וֹת בָּתֵּ֙ינוּ֙ אֲרָזִ֔ים רַהִיטֵ֖נוּ בְּרוֹתִֽים׃

*Word for word:* the.beams our.houses our \[are\].cedar(s) rafters our \[are\].cypress(es)

*JPS 1917:* The beams of our houses are cedars, and our panels are cypresses.

[2 Chronicles 3:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.3.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.3.7/#tree)

וַיְחַ֨ף אֶת־הַבַּ֜יִת הַקֹּר֧וֹת הַסִּפִּ֛ים וְקִֽירוֹתָ֥יו וְדַלְתוֹתָ֖יו זָהָ֑ב וּפִתַּ֥ח כְּרוּבִ֖ים עַל־הַקִּירֽוֹת׃ס

*Word for word:* and he.overlaid (et) the house the beams the thresholds and walls its and doors its gold and he.engraved cherubim on the walls

*JPS 1917:* He overlaid also the house, the beams, the thresholds, and the walls thereof, and the doors thereof, with gold; and graved cherubim on the walls.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6982.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6982/): 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).