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# תַּבְנִית

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8403

**construction** — used 20 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

construction [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8403/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תַּבְנִית: n.f. construction, pattern, figure [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8403/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. construction, pattern, figure—תּ׳ abs. 1 Ch 28:19; cstr. Ex 25:9(×2) + 14 times + Ez 8:10 (del. Co); תַּבְנִיתוֹ 2 K 16:10, תַּבְנִיתָם Ex 25:40;— app. originally construction, structure, yet only P & late: תַּבְנִית מִזְבַּח י׳ Jos 22:28; cf. ψ 144:12 in sim. בְּנוֹתֵינוּ כִזָוִיּוֹת מְחֻטָּבוֹת תּ׳ הֵיכָל carved according to the construction of a palace, palace-fashion. pattern, according to which anything is to be constructed (P & late), of tabernacle Ex 25:9, utensils of tab. v 9, 40; an alter 2 K 16:10 תַּבְנִיתוֹ לְכָל־מַעֲשֵׂהוּ (disting. from דְּמוּת); temple 1 Ch 28:11 cf. v 12; chariot, i.e. cherubim 1 Ch 28:18; מַלְאֲכוֹת הַתּ׳ 1 Ch 28:19 i.e. objects of which the pattern is given. figure, image, Hex only D, of idols in form of animals Dt 4:16, 17(×2), 18(×2); elsewhere late Is 44:13 Ez 8:10 (del. B Co) ψ 106:20; cf. תּ׳ יָד Ez 8:3; 10:8 i.e. something like a hand.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 17 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a likeness (5); pattern (4); the pattern (4).

## In the verses

[Psalms 106:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.106.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.106.20/#tree)

וַיָּמִ֥ירוּ אֶת־כְּבוֹדָ֑ם בְּתַבְנִ֥ית שׁ֝֗וֹר אֹכֵ֥ל עֵֽשֶׂב׃

*Word for word:* and they.exchanged (et) glory their for an.image of.an.ox \[which\].eats vegetation

*JPS 1917:* Thus they exchanged their glory for the likeness of an ox that eateth grass.

[Ezekiel 10:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.10.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.10.8/#tree)

וַיֵּרָ֖א לַכְּרֻבִ֑ים תַּבְנִית֙ יַד־אָדָ֔ם תַּ֖חַת כַּנְפֵיהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* and it.was.seen to the cherubim \[the\].form of.\[the\].hand of.a.human under wings their

*JPS 1917:* And there appeared in the cherubim the form of a man's hand under their wings.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8403.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8403/): 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).