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# קֶלַע

Biblical Hebrew

**curtain** — used 16 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

curtain [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/lemma_3a_5e7_5b6_5dc_5b7_5e2/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קֶ֫לַע²: curtain, hanging [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/lemma_3a_5e7_5b6_5dc_5b7_5e2/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] curtain, hanging (P);—pl. abs. קְלָעִים Ex 27:9 + 7 times Ex; cstr. קַלְעֵי 35:17 + 4 times Ex, Nu 3:26; 4:26.—1 K 6:34 b read צְלָעִים.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 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: curtains (9); the curtains (7).

## In the verses

[Exodus 38:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.38.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.38.16/#tree)

כָּל־קַלְעֵ֧י הֶחָצֵ֛ר סָבִ֖יב שֵׁ֥שׁ מָשְׁזָֽר׃

*Word for word:* all the.curtains of the.courtyard all.around \[were\].fine.linen twisted

*JPS 1917:* All the hangings of the court round about were of fine twined linen.

[Exodus 38:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.38.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.38.14/#tree)

קְלָעִ֛ים חֲמֵשׁ־עֶשְׂרֵ֥ה אַמָּ֖ה אֶל־הַכָּתֵ֑ף עַמּוּדֵיהֶ֣ם שְׁלֹשָׁ֔ה וְאַדְנֵיהֶ֖ם שְׁלֹשָֽׁה׃

*Word for word:* curtains \[were\].fif- teen cubit\[s\] to the side pillars their \[were\].three and bases their \[were\].three

*JPS 1917:* The hangings for the one side of the gate were fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e7_5b6_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_5b6_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).