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# שֶׁקֶף

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8260

**frame-work** — 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

frame-work [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8260/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שֶׁ֫קֶף: frame-work, casing [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8260/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n. \[m.\] frame-work, casing of doors (cf. NH שְׁקוּף lintel, Aramaic שְׁקוֹף, שַׁקְפָא threshold);—שָׁ֑קֶף 1 K 7:5.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: frame-work (1).

## In the verses

[1 Kings 7:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.7.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.7.5/#tree)

וְכָל־הַפְּתָחִ֥ים וְהַמְּזוּז֖וֹת רְבֻעִ֣ים שָׁ֑קֶף וּמ֧וּל מֶחֱזָ֛ה אֶל־מֶחֱזָ֖ה שָׁלֹ֥שׁ פְּעָמִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and all the openings and the doorposts \[were\].square frame-work and.\[the\] front window \[was\].to window three times

*JPS 1917:* And all the doors with their posts were square in the frame; and light was over against light in three ranks.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8260.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8260/): 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).