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# שָׁלָב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7948

**be bound** — used 3 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

be bound [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7948/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שְׁלַבִּים: pl. joinings [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7948/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] pl. joinings of bases (𝔙 juncturae);—בֵּין הַשׁ׳ 1 K 7:28, 29, עַל־הַשְּׁ׳ v 29; AV RV ledges, ribs (Kit) or frames (Benz), joining or binding the parts together.

Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech differs, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: bars (3).

## In the verses

[1 Kings 7:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.7.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.7.28/#tree)

וְזֶ֛ה מַעֲשֵׂ֥ה הַמְּכוֹנָ֖ה מִסְגְּרֹ֣ת לָהֶ֑ם וּמִסְגְּרֹ֖ת בֵּ֥ין הַשְׁלַבִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* and this \[was\].the.work of the.stand rims \[belonged\].to them and rims \[were\].between the.cross bars

*JPS 1917:* And the work of the bases was on this manner: they had borders; and there were borders between the stays;

[1 Kings 7:29](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.7.29/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.7.29/#tree)

וְעַֽל־הַמִּסְגְּר֞וֹת אֲשֶׁ֣ר ׀ בֵּ֣ין הַשְׁלַבִּ֗ים אֲרָי֤וֹת ׀ בָּקָר֙ וּכְרוּבִ֔ים וְעַל־הַשְׁלַבִּ֖ים כֵּ֣ן מִמָּ֑עַל וּמִתַּ֙חַת֙ לַאֲרָי֣וֹת וְלַבָּקָ֔ר לֹי֖וֹת מַעֲשֵׂ֥ה מוֹרָֽד׃

*Word for word:* and.\[were\] on the rims which \[were\].between the.cross bars lions ox\[en\] and cherubim and.\[was\] on the.cross bars a.base from above and.\[were\] from under to the.lions and to the ox\[en\] wreaths \[the\].work of.descent

*JPS 1917:* and on the borders that were between the stays were lions, oxen, and cherubim; and upon the stays it was in like manner above; and beneath the lions and oxen were wreaths of hanging work.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7948.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7948/): 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).