Word

מְכוֹנָה

mᵉkôwnâh · H4350 · Hebrew · 25 occurrences

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Thing

Temple: Movable stand, cart, stand, baseFurniture of the Tabernacle and Temple29 verses

Meanings

place, site, base

A firm location, suitable for building upon

Examples
Ezra 3:3 So they set up the altar on its foundation, because they were terrified of the peoples of the lands; and they offered burnt offerings on it to the LORD, burnt offerings morning and evening.
Zechariah 5:11 Then he said to me, “To build a temple for her in the land of Shinar; and when it is prepared, she will be set there on her own pedestal.”
stand

A construction on wheels, used for carrying a basin

Examples
1 Kings 7:27 Then he made the ten stands of bronze; the length of each stand was four cubits, its width four cubits, and its height was three cubits.
1 Kings 7:28 This was the design of the stands: they had borders, that is, borders between the crossbars,
1 Kings 7:30 Now each stand had four bronze wheels with bronze axles, and its four feet had supports; beneath the basin were cast supports with wreaths at each side.

How it’s used In 7 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 2 groups

הוּhis 1
הּher 1

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

11 occurrences in 4 groups

אֶחָדone 4
עֶשֶׂרten 4
בַּיִתhouse, household 2
חָמֵשׁfive 1

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 1 groups

מִסְגֶּרֶתrim, frame, stronghold 1

What is done to itIt is the object

6 occurrences in 3 groups

עָשָׂהto do, to make 3
שָׁבַרto break, to shatter 2
נָתַןto give, to put, to set 1

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

4 occurrences in 5 groups

אוֹפָןwheel 1
יָדhand, power 1
כִּיּוֹרbasin 1
כָּתֵףshoulder, side 1
סֶרֶןlord, ruler 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

11 occurrences in 5 groups

עַלon, upon, over, against 9
לto/for 2
מִןfrom 1
תַּחַתunder, below, instead of 1
בin/on/with 1

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

5 occurrences in 4 groups

רֹאשׁhead, top, chief 2
מַעֲשֶׂהwork, deed 1
פִּנָּהcorner 1
אֹרֶךְlength 1

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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Semantic domains 3 entries

Steady002001001062: מְכוֹנָה describes a stable, fixed base or stand, illustrated at 1 Kings 7:27 ("the ten stands of bronze; the length of each stand was four cubits") and 1 Kings 7:30 ("each stand had four bronze wheels... its four feet had supports").
Vehicles001003001001019: The word specifically names the wheeled bronze stands that carried the temple's laver basins, functioning as mobile carts as well as stationary bases (1 Kings 7:27-37).
Furnishings001003001001008: מְכוֹנָה also names the bronze stand itself as a piece of temple furnishing, illustrated at 1 Kings 7:28 ("this was the design of the stands: they had borders").

Word family 10 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

כּוּן kûwn · H3559 · to be in place, to put in place, to establish · 217×כֵּן kên · H3651 · thus, in this manner, in this way · 766×מְכוֹנָהmᵉkôwnâh · H4350אָכֵן ʼâkên · H403 · surely, certainly, truly · 18×כֵּן kên · H3653 · thus, in this manner, in this way · 17×מָכוֹן mâkôwn · H4349 · place, site, base · 17×כֵּן kên · H3652 · thus · 8×כַּוָּן kavvân · H3561 · sacred cakes · 2×מְכֻנָה mᵉkunâh · H4369 · place, site, base · 0×תְּכוּנָה tᵉkûwnâh · H8499 · dwelling-place, layout · 0×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4350. mekonah מְכֹנָה מְכוֺנָה,25 noun feminine fixed resting-place, base; — absolute ׳מ…

H4350. mekonah
מְכֹנָה מְכוֺנָה,25
noun feminine fixed resting-place, base; — absolute ׳מ 1Ki 7:27 1Ki 7:5t.; מְכֹנָה 1Ki 7:34 (twice in verse); 1Ki 7:35; suffix מְכֻנָתָתּ Zec 5:11 (Ges§ 27, 3. R. 1); plural מְכוֺנוֺת Jer 27:19, מְכֹנֹת 1Ki 7:27 1Ki 7:12t.; suffix מְכוֺנֹתָ֯ו Ezr 3:3; — base or stand of laver כִּיּוֺד 1Ki 7:27 (twice in verse) + 13 t. 1 Kings 7; 2Ki 16:17; 2Ki 25:13, 2Ki 25:16 = Jer 52:17, Jer 52:20; Jer 27:19; 2Ch 4:14 (twice in verse); of altar Ezr 3:3; of the symbolic ephah Zec 5:11.

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

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Vehicles23 occurrences Steady2 occurrences

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