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# שְׁפַתַּיִם

Biblical Hebrew

**hook-shaped pegs** — 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

hook-shaped pegs [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b0_5c1_5e4_5b7_5ea_5b7_5bc_5d9_5b4_5dd/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שְׁפַתַּ֫יִם²: du. hook-shaped pegs, hooks [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b0_5c1_5e4_5b7_5ea_5b7_5bc_5d9_5b4_5dd/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\]du. doubtful word: usually hook-shaped pegs, hooks, so 𝔗 Thes AV RV; abs. וְהַשּׁ׳ Ez 40:43; וּשְׂפָתָם and their edge, so Aq Theod Symm and prob. 𝔊, cf. Hi-Sm, and Krae (וּשְׂפַת).—i. שׁ׳ v. √ שׁפה.

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, 3 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: hooks (1).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 40:43](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.40.43/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.40.43/#tree)

וְהַֽשְׁפַתַּ֗יִם טֹ֧פַח אֶחָ֛ד מוּכָנִ֥ים בַּבַּ֖יִת סָבִ֣יב ׀ סָבִ֑יב וְאֶל־הַשֻּׁלְחָנ֖וֹת בְּשַׂ֥ר הַקָּרְבָֽן׃

*Word for word:* and the hooks a.hand.breadth one \[were\].established in the house all.around all.around and.\[was\] to the tables the.flesh of the.offering

*JPS 1917:* And the slabs, a handbreadth long, were fastened within round about; and upon the tables was to be the flesh of the offering.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e9_5b0_5c1_5e4_5b7_5ea_5b7_5bc_5d9_5b4_5dd.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b0_5c1_5e4_5b7_5ea_5b7_5bc_5d9_5b4_5dd/): 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).