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# קָלַע

Biblical Hebrew

**carve** — used 3 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

carve [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/lemma_3a_5e7_5b8_5dc_5b7_5e2/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קָלַע²: vb. carve [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/lemma_3a_5e7_5b8_5dc_5b7_5e2/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. carve;— Pf. 3 ms. ק׳: c. 2 acc., carve walls with, 1 K 6:29; c. acc. cogn. + עַל v 32; c. acc. of thing carved v 35.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: he carved (3).

## In the verses

[1 Kings 6:35](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.6.35/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.6.35/#tree)

וְקָלַ֤ע כְּרוּבִים֙ וְתִ֣מֹר֔וֹת וּפְטֻרֵ֖י צִצִּ֑ים וְצִפָּ֣ה זָהָ֔ב מְיֻשָּׁ֖ר עַל־הַמְּחֻקֶּֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.carved cherubim and palm.trees and spread.out.\[things\] of.blossoms and he.overlaid gold made.smooth on the.carved \[work\]

*JPS 1917:* And he carved thereon cherubim and palm-trees and open flowers; and he overlaid them with gold fitted upon the graven work.

[1 Kings 6:29](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.6.29/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.6.29/#tree)

וְאֵת֩ כָּל־קִיר֨וֹת הַבַּ֜יִת מֵסַ֣ב ׀ קָלַ֗ע פִּתּוּחֵי֙ מִקְלְעוֹת֙ כְּרוּבִ֣ים וְתִֽמֹרֹ֔ת וּפְטוּרֵ֖י צִצִּ֑ים מִלִּפְנִ֖ים וְלַחִיצֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* and (et) all the.walls of the.house round.about he.carved engravings of.carvings of.cherubim and palm.trees and spread.out.\[things\] of.blossoms from to faces and to the outer

*JPS 1917:* And he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of cherubim and palm-trees and open flowers, within and without.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e7_5b8_5dc_5b7_5e2.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/lemma_3a_5e7_5b8_5dc_5b7_5e2/): 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).