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# תִּמֹרָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8561

**palm** — used 19 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

palm [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8561/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תִּמֹרָה: n.f. palm figure [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8561/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. palm(-tree) figure, as ornament;—ת׳ Ez 41:18 + (van d. H. תִּמּ׳, so throughout); pl. תִּמֹרֹת 1 K 6:29 + (Gi תִּמּ׳), תִּמֹרִים Ez 40:16 +; sf. תִּימֹרָיו v 22 Qr (Kt תימרו);—palm-figure in Sol.’s temple 1 K 6:29, 32(×2) 35; 7:36 2 Ch 3:5; in Ezekiel’s temple Ez 40:16, 22, 26 + 10 times 40, 41.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 of its verses cited, 1 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, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: palm trees (13); tree (2); trees (2).

## In the verses

[1 Kings 6:35](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.6.35/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.6.35/#tree)

וְקָלַ֤ע כְּרוּבִים֙ וְתִ֣מֹר֔וֹת וּפְטֻרֵ֖י צִצִּ֑ים וְצִפָּ֣ה זָהָ֔ב מְיֻשָּׁ֖ר עַל־הַמְּחֻקֶּֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.carved cherubim and palm.trees and spread.out.\[things\] of.blossoms and he.overlaid gold made.smooth on the.carved \[work\]

*JPS 1917:* And he carved thereon cherubim and palm-trees and open flowers; and he overlaid them with gold fitted upon the graven work.

[Ezekiel 40:31](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.40.31/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.40.31/#tree)

וְאֵלַמָּ֗ואֶל־חָצֵר֙ הַחִ֣צוֹנָ֔ה וְתִמֹרִ֖ים אֶל־אֵילָ֑יו וּמַעֲל֥וֹת שְׁמוֹנֶ֖ה מַעֲלָֽיו׃

*Word for word:* and porches its \[were\].to a.courtyard (the) outer and palm.trees \[were\].to pillars its and.\[was\] steps eight ascents its

*JPS 1917:* And the arches thereof were toward the outer court; and palm-trees were upon the posts thereof; and the going up to it had eight steps.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8561.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8561/): 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).