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מִסְגֶּרֶת

miçgereth · H4526 · Hebrew · 17 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. a rim or panel

    A flat, rectangular piece of metal attached to the sides of an object, usually for decoration

    Examples

    Exodus 25:25 “And you shall make for it a rim of a hand width around it; and you shall make a gold border for the rim around it.

    Exodus 25:27 “The rings shall be close to the rim, as holders for the poles to carry the table.

    Exodus 37:12 And he made a rim for it of a hand width all around, and made a gold molding for its rim all around.

  2. fortress, stronghold

    Exact meaning unknown; probably: a type of fortification

    Examples

    2 Samuel 22:46 “Foreigners lose heart, And come trembling out of their fortresses.

    Psalm 18:45 Foreigners lose heart, And come trembling out of their fortresses.

    Micah 7:17 They will lick up dust like a snake, Like reptiles of the earth. They will come trembling out of their fortresses; To the LORD our God they will come in trepidation, And they will be afraid of You.

How it’s used In 9 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

10 occurrences in 4 groups

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

1 occurrences in 1 groups

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

3 occurrences in 2 groups

What it is said to bePredicate

3 occurrences in 3 groups

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

2 occurrences in 2 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

8 occurrences in 3 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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Semantic domains 2 entries
Furnishings001003001001008
מִסְגֶּרֶת denotes the decorative rim or border on a piece of tabernacle furniture, as with the gold border made around the rim of the table of showbread.
Fortifications001003002003
מִסְגֶּרֶת denotes an enclosed stronghold or fortress, as in David's song describing foreigners coming trembling out of their fortresses.
Word family 6 words

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

סָגַר çâgar · H5462 · to shut, to close · 83×מִסְגֶּרֶתmiçgereth · H4526מַסְגֵּר maçgêr · H4525 · smith, metal worker, prison · 7×סְגוֹר çᵉgôwr · H5458 · ribcage, fine gold · 2×סְגַר çᵉgar · H5463 · shut up · 1×סוּגַר çûwgar · H5474 · cage · 1×
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4526. misgereth מִסְגֶּ֫רֶת noun feminine 1. border, rim. 2 fastness; — absolute ׳מ Exo…
H4526. misgereth
מִסְגֶּ֫רֶת noun feminine 1. border, rim.
2 fastness; — absolute ׳מ Exo 25:27; Exo 37:14; construct ׳מ Exo 25:25; Exo 37:12; suffix מִסְגַּרְתּוֺ Exo 25:25; Exo 37:12; plural absolute מִסְגְּרוֺת 1Ki 7:28 +; suffix מִסְגְּרֹתֶיהָ 1Ki 7:35; 1Ki 7:36, etc.; —
1 border, rim (enclosure), of sacred table in tabernacle Exo 25:25 (twice in verse); Exo 25:27 = Exo 37:12 (twice in verse); Exo 37:14; of bases of the sea, in temple 1Ki 7:28 (twice in verse); 1Ki 7:29, 1Ki 7:31, 1Ki 7:32, 1Ki 7:35, 1Ki 7:36 (compare Benz), also 2Ki 16:17.
2 fastness, מִמּ ׳וְיַחְרְגוּ Psa 18:46 = 2Sa 22:46 (see חרג) and they shall come quaking out of their fastnesses, so Mic 7:17 (יִרְגְּזוּ, like reptiles), all of nations, in awe of ׳י.
II. סגר (√ of following; compare apparently Arabic fill with water Lane1308, torrent that fills everything Idib.; Syriac imber vehemens, and Samaritan אַסְגָּר, compare GeiNachgel. Schr. iv. 186).

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

Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Furnishings14 occurrencesFortifications3 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

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