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# רִצְפָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7531

**pavement** — used 7 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

pavement [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7531/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רִֽצְפָה: n.f. pavement [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7531/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. pavement;—abs. ר׳ Ez 40:17(×2) +, cstr. רִֽצְפַת Est 1:6 (van d. H. רִצְפָּה, -פַּת);—pavement, in Ezek.’s temple, Ez 40:17(×2), 18(×2); 42:3; Sol.’s temple 2 Ch 7:3; in a palace Est 1:6.

Why these entries: BDB: headword without dagesh, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: pavement (4); a pavement (2); \[the\] pavement (1).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 40:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.40.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.40.18/#tree)

וְהָרִֽצְפָה֙ אֶל־כֶּ֣תֶף הַשְּׁעָרִ֔ים לְעֻמַּ֖ת אֹ֣רֶךְ הַשְּׁעָרִ֑ים הָרִֽצְפָ֖ה הַתַּחְתּוֹנָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and the pavement \[was\].to the.side of the.gates corresponding to the.length of the.gates the pavement (the) lower

*JPS 1917:* And the pavement was by the side of the gates, corresponding unto the length of the gates, even the lower pavement.

[Ezekiel 40:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.40.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.40.17/#tree)

וַיְבִיאֵ֗נִי אֶל־הֶֽחָצֵר֙ הַחִ֣יצוֹנָ֔ה וְהִנֵּ֤ה לְשָׁכוֹת֙ וְרִֽצְפָ֔ה עָשׂ֥וּי לֶחָצֵ֖ר סָבִ֣יב ׀ סָבִ֑יב שְׁלֹשִׁ֥ים לְשָׁכ֖וֹת אֶל־הָרִֽצְפָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he brought.me into the courtyard the outer and there! rooms and a.pavement made for the courtyard all.around all.around thirty rooms to the pavement

*JPS 1917:* Then brought he me into the outer court, and, lo, there were chambers and a pavement, made for the court round about; thirty chambers were upon the pavement.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7531/): 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).