מַסְמֵר
maçmêr · H4548 · Hebrew · 4 occurrences
Thing
- Nail, spikeCarpenter6 verses
Meanings
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a nail
A thin piece of metal, usually iron, sharpened on one end and used for attaching pieces of wood to each other or to the floor
Examples1 Chronicles 22:3 And David prepared large quantities of iron to make the nails for the doors of the gates and for the clamps, and more bronze than could be weighed;
2 Chronicles 3:9 The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He also overlaid the upper rooms with gold.
Isaiah 41:7 So the craftsman encourages the smelter, And he who smooths metal with the hammer encourages him who beats the anvil, Saying of the soldering, “It is good”; And he fastens it with nails, So that it will not totter.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
4 occurrences in 2 groups
- בin/on/with 3
- לto/for 2
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
- יָתֵד yâthêd · H3489 · peg, trowel, shovel
- Both מַסְמֵר and יָתֵד refer to fastening implements, though יָתֵד typically denotes a tent peg or wooden pin driven into the ground or a wall, while מַסְמֵר more often refers to a metal nail used in construction or joining materials. The terms overlap in the semantic domain of fasteners and can be contextually interchangeable in some construction contexts.
In the other Testament 1 word
- ἧλος hēlos · G2247 · nail, spike
- Greek translation equivalent for Hebrew מַסְמֵר; both refer to a metal fastener (nail or peg) used in construction or fastening objects together. This is the standard LXX rendering and the word used in John 20:25 for the nails of the crucifixion.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Tools001003001001017
- מַסְמֵר denotes a nail, a metal fastening tool, illustrated at 1 Chronicles 22:3 ("David prepared large quantities of iron for the nails for the doors of the gates") and 2 Chronicles 3:9.
Word family 10 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4548. masmer or mismer or masmerah or mismerah or masmerah [מַסְמֵר] noun masculineEcc…
or mismer or masmerah or mismerah or masmerah [מַסְמֵר] noun masculineEcc 12:11 nail (connection with above √ dubious; מַסְמְרָא ᵑ7, ChrPalAramaic Schw63. 122; Late Hebrew verb סמר nail on or up; Arabic is perhaps loan-word Frä89); — plural absolute מַסְמְרִים Isa 41:7, מִסְמְרִים 1Ch 22:3 (of iron; on ִ֯ see Ges§ 85f.); also מַסְמְרוֺת Jer 10:4 (+ מַקָּבוֺת), נְטוּעִים מַשְׂמְרוֺת, Ecc 12:11(simile; + דָּרְבֹנוֺת), and מִסְמְרוֺת2Ch 3:9 (of gold).
[מַשְׂמֵר], מַשְׂמְרוֺת, Ecc 12:14, see [ מַסְמֵר].
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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