מַקְצוֹעַ
maqtsôwaʻ · H4740 · Hebrew · 12 occurrences
Place
Meanings
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corner, angle
Part of a construction where two sides come together
ExamplesExodus 26:24 “They shall be double beneath, and together they shall be complete to its top to the first ring; this is how it shall be with both of them: they shall form the two corners.
Exodus 36:29 They were double beneath, and together they were complete to its top, to the first ring; he did this with both of them for the two corners.
2 Chronicles 26:9 Moreover, Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the Corner Gate, the Valley Gate, and at the corner buttress, and he fortified them.
How it’s used In 5 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
5 occurrences in 2 groups
- חָצֵרcourt, courtyard 4
- הוּhis 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
4 occurrences in 2 groups
- אַרְבַּעfour 2
- שְׁנַיִםtwo 2
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עֵץtree, wood 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
3 occurrences in 1 groups
- חָצֵרcourt, courtyard 3
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
9 occurrences in 6 groups
- לto/for 4
- בin/on/with 3
- אֵלto, toward 2
- מִןfrom 1
- עַדto, as far as, until 1
- עַלon, upon, over, against 1
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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In the other Testament 1 word
- γωνία gōnía · G1137 · corner
- Greek γωνία renders Hebrew מַקְצוֹעַ in architectural contexts denoting corner/angle structures, with both terms sharing the core spatial sense of where two surfaces meet at an angular junction.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Constructions001003002
- The word denotes a corner or angle of a structure, as the corners of the tabernacle's frames or the corner buttress and Angle fortified in Jerusalem's walls.
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4740. miqtsoa מִקָצֹעַ noun masculineEze 46:21 place of corner-structure, (inner)…
מִקָצֹעַ noun masculineEze 46:21 place of corner-structure, (inner) corner-buttress (as (place of) cutting off of an inner angle if √ rightly explained; see RSl.c. 71-81); — absolute ׳מ Neh 3:19 +, צוֺעַ- Neh 3:20 +; construct צֹעַ- Eze 46:21 (twice in verse); plural absolute מִקָצֹעֹת Exo 26:24; Exo 36:29, construct עוֺת- Eze 46:22, מִקְצוֺעֵי Eze 46:21, also מְקֻצְעֹת Exo 26:23; Exo 36:28 Di (not
Pu`al Participle from קָצַע Thes BuhlLex 13 and others), but read probably מִקְצֹעֹת, so SS Baen; suffix מִקְצֹעוֺתָיו Eze 41:22;-corner-post of altar Eze 41:22, tabernacle Exo 26:23-24, = Exo 36:28-29, (inner) buttress-place of court, where the small corner-courts were, Eze 46:21 (3 t. in verse); Eze 46:22; of inner (rock- ?) buttress at northeast corner of wall of Jerusalem, ׳הַמּ, nearly = proper name, Neh 3:19-20, Neh 3:25, also (distinguished from מִּנָּה) Neh 3:24; 2Ch 26:9.
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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