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# קְעָרָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7086

**dish** — used 17 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

dish [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7086/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קְעָרָה: n.f. dish, platter [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7086/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. dish, platter (P) (NH id.);—abs. ק׳ Nu 7:85; cstr. קַעֲרַת־כֶּסֶף Nu 7:13 + 11 times 7; pl. cstr. קַעֲרֹת כֶּסֶף 7:84, all of dedication gifts; as utensils in tabern. pl. abs. קְעָרֹת 4:7, sf. קְעָרֹתָיו Ex 25:29; 37:16.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[was\] a dish (11); dishes (4); a dish (1).

## In the verses

[Exodus 25:29](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.25.29/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.25.29/#tree)

וְעָשִׂ֨יתָ קְּעָרֹתָ֜יו וְכַפֹּתָ֗יו וּקְשׂוֹתָיו֙ וּמְנַקִּיֹּתָ֔יו אֲשֶׁ֥ר יֻסַּ֖ךְ בָּהֵ֑ן זָהָ֥ב טָה֖וֹר תַּעֲשֶׂ֥ה אֹתָֽם׃

*Word for word:* and you.will.make dishes its and pans its and jugs its and bowls its which it.will.be.poured.out with them gold pure you.will.make them

*JPS 1917:* And thou shalt make the dishes thereof, and the pans thereof, and the jars thereof, and the bowls thereof, wherewith to pour out; of pure gold shalt thou make them.

[Numbers 7:84](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.7.84/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.7.84/#tree)

זֹ֣את ׀ חֲנֻכַּ֣ת הַמִּזְבֵּ֗חַ בְּיוֹם֙ הִמָּשַׁ֣ח אֹת֔וֹ מֵאֵ֖ת נְשִׂיאֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל קַעֲרֹ֨ת כֶּ֜סֶף שְׁתֵּ֣ים עֶשְׂרֵ֗ה מִֽזְרְקֵי־כֶ֙סֶף֙ שְׁנֵ֣ים עָשָׂ֔ר כַּפּ֥וֹת זָהָ֖ב שְׁתֵּ֥ים עֶשְׂרֵֽה׃

*Word for word:* this \[was\].the.dedication of the.altar on the.day was.anointed it from with the.leaders of.Israel dishes of.silver two.plus ten bowls of.silver two.plus ten pans of.gold two.plus ten

*JPS 1917:* This was the dedication-offering of the altar, in the day when it was anointed, at the hands of the princes of Israel: twelve silver dishes, twelve silver basins, twelve golden pans;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7086.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7086/): 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).