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# רִקֻּעַ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7555

**expansion** — 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

expansion [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7555/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רִקּוּעַ: expansion [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7555/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] expansion;—pl. cstr. וְעָשׂוּ אֹתָם רִקֻּעֵי פַחִים Nu 17:3 expansions of plates, i.e. they shall be beaten into broad plates.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (3 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 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: beaten out (1).

## In the verses

[Numbers 17:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.17.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.17.3/#tree)

אֵ֡ת מַחְתּוֹת֩ הַֽחַטָּאִ֨ים הָאֵ֜לֶּה בְּנַפְשֹׁתָ֗ם וְעָשׂ֨וּ אֹתָ֜ם רִקֻּעֵ֤י פַחִים֙ צִפּ֣וּי לַמִּזְבֵּ֔חַ כִּֽי־הִקְרִיבֻ֥ם לִפְנֵֽי־יְהוָ֖ה וַיִּקְדָּ֑שׁוּ וְיִֽהְי֥וּ לְא֖וֹת לִבְנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* (et) the.censers of the.sinners (the) these by lives their and people.will.make them beaten.out of.thin.plates plating for the altar (dm) they brought.them.near before Yahweh and they.became.holy and let.them.become (into).a sign for the.people of.Israel

*JPS 1917:* even the fire-pans of these men who have sinned at the cost of their lives, and let them be made beaten plates for a covering of the altar — for they are become holy, because they were offered before the LORD — that they may be a sign unto the children of Israel.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7555.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7555/): 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).