מַעֲבֶה
maʻăbeh · H4568 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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mold
A hollow container used to give shape to molten or hot liquid material when it cools and hardens
Examples1 Kings 7:46 The king had them cast in the plain of the Jordan, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarethan.
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
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אֲדָמָהground 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 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 2 words
- חֹמֶר chômer · H2563 · mud, clay, mortar
- חֹמֶר is the most common Hebrew term for clay/mud used in construction and pottery contexts (Gen 11:3; Exod 1:14; Isa 41:25; Nah 3:14). While מַעֲבֶה appears only once (Jer 43:9), חֹמֶר is the standard lexeme for the same material substance and could substitute semantically.
- טִיט ṭîyṭ · H2916 · mud, dirt, mire
- טִיט denotes wet clay or mud/mire (Isa 57:20; Jer 38:6; Ps 40:3; 69:3). It overlaps semantically with מַעֲבֶה as a term for clay material, though טִיט often emphasizes the wet, sticky quality of mud rather than clay as a building material.
In the other Testament 1 word
- πηλός pēlós · G4081 · mud, clay
- πηλός is the standard Greek translation equivalent for Hebrew clay/mud terms, used in the LXX for various clay contexts (e.g., Job 38:14, Isaiah 45:9) and in the NT (John 9:6, 11, 14-15; Romans 9:21). It denotes the same material substance—moist earth suitable for pottery or building.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Containers001003001001003
- מַעֲבֶה denotes clay used as a molding material, as in the clay ground where Solomon's bronze temple furnishings were cast, functioning as the casting vessel for the finished objects.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4568. maabeh מַעֲבֶה noun [masculine] si vera lectio, thickness, compactness; —…
מַעֲבֶה noun [masculine] si vera lectio, thickness, compactness; — הָאֲדָמָה בְּמַעֲבֵה 1Ki 7:46 in the compactness of the soil, i.e. clayey ground or clay mould = 2Ch 4:17 (where הָ ׳בַּעֲבִי ᵑ0); but read doubtless in both אֲדָמָה בְּמַעְבֶּרֶת at the ford of Adamah, see GFMJdg 7:22 BenzK.
עָבוֺת see עבת.
עבט (perhaps √ of following; compare Assyrian ubbu‰u° (II. of אבט [= עבט ?]) be pledged DlHWB 6; Aramaic (Talmud) עֲבִיטָה pledge, עֲבַט Ithpe`el be taken in pledge; but WeJoe 2:7 thinks עֲבוֺט Aramaic loan-word, and compare Arabic hold, keep, guard).
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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