מִכְלָאָה
miklâʼâh · H4356 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences
Thing
- Sheep pen, sheepfoldAnimal husbandry17 verses
Meanings
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sheep pen or sheepfold
An area enclosed by a stone wall or hedge of branches and thorns, with a narrow opening that can be closed, used for keeping sheep at night to protect them from thieves or wild animals
ExamplesPsalm 50:9 “I will not take a bull from your house, Nor male goats from your folds.
Psalm 78:70 He also chose His servant David And took him from the sheepfolds;
Habakkuk 3:17 Even if the fig tree does not blossom, And there is no fruit on the vines, If the yield of the olive fails, And the fields produce no food, Even if the flock disappears from the fold, And there are no cattle in the stalls,
How it’s used In 2 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
- צֹאןflock, small cattle, sheep and goats 1
- ךָyour 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
3 occurrences in 1 groups
- מִןfrom 5
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 5 words
- אֻרְוָה ʼurvâh · H723 · stall, animal pen, cattle pen
- 'Sheepfold' and 'stall' overlap in sense, since both are structures for housing animals.
- גְּדֵרָה gᵉdêrâh · H1448 · stone fence, wall, sheep pen
- Both מִכְלָאָה (miklâʼâh, H4356) and גְּדֶרֶת (גְּדֵרָה (gᵉdêrâh, H1448)) denote enclosures for livestock, specifically sheep, and could substitute for one another in context.
- אֲוֵרָה ʼăvêrâh · H220 · animal pen, cattle pen
- Both words denote enclosed spaces for housing animals: אֲוֵרָה (ʼăvêrâh, H220) a shelter for birds or animals more generally, and the target term specifically a sheepfold.
- מִשְׁפָּת mishpâth · H4942 · sheep pen, sheepfold, saddlebasket
- Both lexemes denote enclosures for livestock (specifically sheep), making them genuine same-language near-synonyms that could substitute for each other in sense. מִשְׁפָּת (mishpâth, H4942)'s gloss also mentions "burden" and it belongs to the additional domain "Containers," suggesting some polysemy, but the "sheepfold" sense is explicit and overlaps directly with מִכְלָאָה (miklâʼâh, H4356).
- רֶפֶת repheth · H7517 · animal pen, cattle pen
- Both words denote enclosures or structures for housing livestock, a fold and a stall respectively.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Stalls001003002008
- מִכְלָאָה names a sheepfold or animal pen, a built enclosure for livestock (1 Samuel 24:3; Habakkuk 3:17).
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4356. miklaah or miklah I. מִכְלָה (incorrect for מכלא) noun [masculine] enclosure,…
or miklah I. מִכְלָה (incorrect for מכלא) noun [masculine] enclosure, fold; — מִמּ ׳גָּזַר צאֹן Hab 3:17; plural construct צאֹן מִמִּכְלְאֹת לקח Psa 78:70 (object David); plural suffix מִמִּכְלְאֹתֶיךָ לקח Psa 50:9 (object he-goats). — II. מִכְלָה see below כלה.
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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