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# רִצְפָּה

Biblical Hebrew

**glowing stone** — 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

glowing stone [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/lemma_3a_5e8_5b4_5e6_5b0_5e4_5b8_5bc_5d4/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רִצְפָּה: n.f. glowing stone coal [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/lemma_3a_5e8_5b4_5e6_5b0_5e4_5b8_5bc_5d4/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. glowing stone (or coal) (WeIsr. u. Jüd. Gesch.(3) 83);—ר׳ abs. Is 6:6; pl. עֻגַת רְצָפִים 1 K 19:6 (cf. Syriac supr.).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Isaiah 6:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.6.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.6.6/#tree)

וַיָּ֣עָף אֵלַ֗י אֶחָד֙ מִן־הַשְּׂרָפִ֔ים וּבְיָד֖וֹ רִצְפָּ֑ה בְּמֶ֨לְקַחַ֔יִם לָקַ֖ח מֵעַ֥ל הַמִּזְבֵּֽחַ׃

*Word for word:* and he.flew to me one of the seraphim and.\[was\] in hand his a.live.coal \[which\].with tongs he.had.taken from on the altar

*JPS 1917:* Then flew unto me one of the seraphim, with a glowing stone in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar;

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/lemma_3a_5e8_5b4_5e6_5b0_5e4_5b8_5bc_5d4/): 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).