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# קְלֹקֵל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7052

**contemptible** — 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

contemptible [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7052/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קְלֹקֵל: adj. contemptible, worthless [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7052/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. contemptible, worthless ( cf. Ol§ 189 f BaNB 160);—בַּלֶּחֶם הַקּ׳ Nu 21:5 (JE).

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 (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Numbers 21:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.21.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.21.5/#tree)

וַיְדַבֵּ֣ר הָעָ֗ם בֵּֽאלֹהִים֮ וּבְמֹשֶׁה֒ לָמָ֤ה הֶֽעֱלִיתֻ֙נוּ֙ מִמִּצְרַ֔יִם לָמ֖וּת בַּמִּדְבָּ֑ר כִּ֣י אֵ֥ין לֶ֙חֶם֙ וְאֵ֣ין מַ֔יִם וְנַפְשֵׁ֣נוּ קָ֔צָה בַּלֶּ֖חֶם הַקְּלֹקֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* and it.spoke the people against God and against Moses why? have you.brought.us.up from Egypt to die in the wilderness (dm) there.\[is\].not food and there.\[is\].not water and self our it.loathes (in) the food (the) worthless

*JPS 1917:* And the people spoke against God, and against Moses: 'Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, and there is no water; and our soul loatheth this light bread.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7052.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7052/): 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).