מַעֲרֶכֶת
maʻăreketh · H4635 · Hebrew · 10 occurrences
Thing
Meanings
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row, layer
State in which objects are arranged in a certain order
ExamplesLeviticus 24:6 “And you shall set them in two rows, six to a row, on the pure gold table before the LORD.
Leviticus 24:7 “You shall put pure frankincense on each row so that it may be a memorial portion for the bread, an offering by fire to the LORD.
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showbread, bread of display
The bread that was to be displayed in two rows of six on the table in the sanctuary
Examples1 Chronicles 9:32 Some of their relatives of the sons of the Kohathites were in charge of the showbread to prepare it every Sabbath.
1 Chronicles 23:29 and with the showbread, and the fine flour for a grain offering, and unleavened wafers, or what is baked in the pan or what is well-mixed, and all measures of volume and size.
1 Chronicles 28:16 and the gold by weight for the tables of the showbread, for each table; and silver for the silver tables;
How it’s used In 6 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
- לֶחֶםbread, food 1
- תָּמִידalways 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- שְׁנַיִםtwo 1
Second object ofSecond object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- שׂוּםto put, to set, to place 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- שֵׁשׁsix 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- עַלon, upon, over, against 2
- לto/for 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
5 occurrences in 2 groups
- לֶחֶםbread, food 3
- שֻׁלְחָןtable 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
- טוּר ṭûwr · H2905 · row, course
- Both words refer to an ordered arrangement. מַעֲרֶכֶת (maʻăreketh, H4635) also applies the sense to the bread of the presence, a specific use of arrangement, while טוּר (ṭûwr, H2905) means simply "row."
In the other Testament 1 word
- πρόθεσις próthesis · G4286 · plan, proposal, purpose
- מַעֲרֶכֶת (maʻăreketh, H4635) denotes the physical arrangement/row of items (especially the bread rows in the tabernacle), while πρόθεσις (próthesis, G4286) primarily means the act of setting forth or displaying (with secondary application to the displayed showbread itself); the Greek term emphasizes purpose/intention where the Hebrew emphasizes ordered arrangement.
Semantic domains 2 entries
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4635. maareketh מַּעֲרֶ֫נֶת noun feminine row, line; — only of the rows of 'shew'-bread;…
מַּעֲרֶ֫נֶת noun feminine row, line; — only of the rows of 'shew'-bread; absolute ׳מ Lev 24:7, מַעֲרָ֑כֶת Lev 24:6 (P); elsewhere Chronicles: הַמּ ׳לֶחֶם 1Ch 9:32; 1Ch 23:29; Neh 10:34, הַמּ ׳שֻׁלְחַן2Ch 29:18, compare 1Ch 28:16; construct לֶחֶם מַעֲרֶכֶת2Ch 13:11 the row of bread, so ׳מ2Ch 2:3 the row of continuity, bread continually present in rows; plural absolute מַעֲרָכוֺת שׁתַּיִם Lev 24:6.
ערל (√ of following; meaning dubious; compare Arabic foreskin; Aramaic עוּרְלְתָא, ; Late Hebrew = Biblical Hebrew; also Egyptian karna θ a BrugschÄZ 1876, 128 KrallSB der Wlener Akkadian, hist.-phil. Cl. cxvi (1888), 659 f.).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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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