Word

מַחְבֶּרֶת

machbereth · H4225 · Hebrew · 8 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. set

    Set of objects that have been joined together

    Examples

    Exodus 26:4 “You shall make loops of violet on the edge of the outermost curtain in the first set, and likewise you shall make them on the edge of the curtain that is outermost in the second set.

    Exodus 26:5 “You shall make fifty loops in the one curtain, and you shall make fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that is in the second set; the loops shall be opposite each other.

    Exodus 36:11 And he made loops of violet on the edge of the outermost curtain in the first set; he did likewise on the edge of the curtain that was outermost in the second set.

  2. seam

    Place where two objects have been joined together

    Examples

    Exodus 28:27 “And you shall make two rings of gold and put them on the bottom of the two shoulder pieces of the ephod, on the front of it close to the place where it is joined, above the skillfully woven band of the ephod.

    Exodus 39:20 Furthermore, they made two gold rings and placed them on the bottom of the two shoulder pieces of the ephod, on the front of it, close to the place where it joined, above the woven band of the ephod.

How it’s used In 4 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

2 occurrences in 1 groups

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

4 occurrences in 1 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

6 occurrences in 1 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

2 occurrences in 1 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Near synonyms 1 word
דֶּבֶק debeq · H1694 · fastening, soldering, joint
Both words denote physical joining or fastening mechanisms, a joint or soldering in one case and a coupling in the other, with overlapping senses of attachment and connection.
Semantic domains 1 entry
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מַחְבֶּרֶת names a coupling or joining piece, the tabernacle curtains' connecting fabric or clasps that attach one section to another (Exodus 26:4, 10).
Word family 13 words
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4225. machbereth מַחְבֶּ֫רֶת noun feminine thing joined, place of joining; — absolute ׳מ…
H4225. machbereth
מַחְבֶּ֫רֶת noun feminine thing joined, place of joining; — absolute ׳מ Exo 26:4 Exo 26:3t.; מַחְבָּ֑רֶת Exo 36:11, Exo 36:17; suffix מַחְבַּרְתּוֺ Exo 28:27; Exo 39:20; —
1 thing joined, of curtain-pieces of tabernacle (compare חֹבֶרֶת), Exo 26:4-5, Exo 36:11 (twice in verse); Exo 36:12.
2 place of joining:
a. of the curtains Exo 36:17.
b. of shoulder-pieces of the ephod Exo 28:27; Exo 39:20 (all P).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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