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# תִּימָרָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8490

**column** — used 2 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

column [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8490/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תִּימָרָה²: n.f. column [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8490/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. (palm-like column (spreading at top; cf. Ol§ 184 b);—pl. cstr. תִּימֲרוֹת עָשָׁן Jo 3:3 Ct 3:6 (cf. עַמּוּד עָשָׁן in prose Ju 20:40).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, 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: columns (2).

## In the verses

[Joel 3:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOL.3.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOL.3.3/#tree)

וְנָֽתַתִּי֙ מֽוֹפְתִ֔ים בַּשָּׁמַ֖יִם וּבָאָ֑רֶץ דָּ֣ם וָאֵ֔שׁ וְתִֽימֲר֖וֹת עָשָֽׁן׃

*Word for word:* and I.will.put wonders in the heavens and on the earth blood and fire and columns of.smoke

*JPS 1917:* And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.

[Song of Songs 3:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.3.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.3.6/#tree)

מִ֣י זֹ֗את עֹלָה֙ מִן־הַמִּדְבָּ֔ר כְּתִֽימֲר֖וֹת עָשָׁ֑ן מְקֻטֶּ֤רֶת מוֹר֙ וּלְבוֹנָ֔ה מִכֹּ֖ל אַבְקַ֥ת רוֹכֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* who? this \[is\].coming.up from the wilderness like columns of.smoke \[she.is\].perfumed of.myrrh and frankincense from all \[the\].scent-powder of.a.trader

*JPS 1917:* Who is this that cometh up out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8490.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8490/): 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).