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# קֶרֶשׁ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7175

**board** — used 51 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

board [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7175/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קֶ֫רֶשׁ: n.m. board, boards [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7175/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Ex 26:16 board, boards;—abs. ק׳ Ex 26:18 +, קָ֑רֶשׁ v 20 +; sf. קַרְשֵׁךְ Ez 27:6; pl. קְרָשִׁים v 15 +; cstr. קַרְשֵׁי v 26 +; sf. קְרָשָׁיו 35:11 +;— coll. boards, of deck Ez 27:6 (of Tyre under fig. of ship). board of tabern. Ex 26:15, 16(×2) + 45 times 26–40; Nu 3:36; 4:31 (all P).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 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: frames (18); frame (12); the frames (8).

## In the verses

[Exodus 26:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.26.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.26.22/#tree)

וּֽלְיַרְכְּתֵ֥י הַמִּשְׁכָּ֖ן יָ֑מָּה תַּעֲשֶׂ֖ה שִׁשָּׁ֥ה קְרָשִֽׁים׃

*Word for word:* and for the.innermost.parts of the.tabernacle westward you.will.make six frames

*JPS 1917:* And for the hinder part of the tabernacle westward thou shalt make six boards.

[Exodus 36:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.36.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.36.27/#tree)

וּֽלְיַרְכְּתֵ֥י הַמִּשְׁכָּ֖ן יָ֑מָּה עָשָׂ֖ה שִׁשָּׁ֥ה קְרָשִֽׁים׃

*Word for word:* and for the.innermost.parts of the.tabernacle westward he.made six frames

*JPS 1917:* And for the hinder part of the tabernacle westward he made six boards.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7175.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7175/): 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).