מִסְכְּנָה
miçkᵉnâh · H4543 · Hebrew · 7 occurrences
Thing
- Grain-store, siloStorehouse18 verses
Meanings
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storage places
Places that are used to store supplies and food
ExamplesExodus 1:11 So they appointed taskmasters over them to oppress them with hard labor. And they built for Pharaoh storage cities, Pithom and Raamses.
1 Kings 9:19 and all the storage cities which Solomon had, that is, the cities for his chariots and the cities for his horsemen, and everything that it pleased Solomon to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land under his rule.
2 Chronicles 8:4 He built Tadmor in the wilderness and all the storage cities which he had built in Hamath.
How it’s used In 3 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
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עִירcity, town 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- נָכָהto strike, to strike down 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
5 occurrences in 1 groups
- עִירcity, town 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 1 word
- גְּנַז gᵉnaz · H1596 · treasure
- גְּנָז (found in Esther and Ezra) denotes treasury or treasure, particularly royal treasuries. It overlaps semantically with מִסְכְּנָה in referring to stored wealth and valuables, though גְּנָז may carry slightly more emphasis on the treasure itself rather than the storage facility.
In the other Testament 2 words
- θησαυρός thēsaurós · G2344 · storeroom, treasure room, money box
- θησαυρός is the standard Greek equivalent for Hebrew words denoting treasure/storehouse, used extensively in LXX to translate אוֹצָר and related terms. It denotes both the place where valuables are stored and the valuables themselves, matching the semantic range of מִסְכְּנָה.
- ἀποθήκη apothḗkē · G596 · barn, storehouse
- ἀποθήκη specifically denotes a storage place or repository, particularly for grain or provisions. It serves as a functional Greek equivalent for the storehouse sense of מִסְכְּנָה, emphasizing the architectural/functional aspect of storage.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Constructions001003002
- מִסְכְּנָה denotes a storehouse or treasury building, a structure for storing supplies or valuables.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4543. miskenoth מִסְכְּנוֺת noun feminine plural supply, storage (DlProv 186); — עָרֵי…
מִסְכְּנוֺת noun feminine plural supply, storage (DlProv 186); — עָרֵי ׳(חַ)מ Exo 1:11 (J), 1Ki 9:19 2Ch 8:6, 2Ch 8:4; 2Ch 17:12; ׳מ ׳ע2Ch 16:4 probably corrupt (Be and others; see עִיר); ׳מ alone 2Ch 32:28 storage-places, magazines.
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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