מְקָרֶה
mᵉqâreh · H4746 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Thing
Meanings
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beam-work, roof, ceiling
Exact meaning unsure; probably: structure consisting of beams and other woodwork forming the roof of a building; requires proper maintenance
ExamplesEcclesiastes 10:18 Through extreme laziness the rafters sag, and through idleness the house leaks.
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
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מָכַךְto sink in 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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Near synonyms 1 word
- בִּנְיָן binyân · H1146 · building, structure
- Hebrew synonym denoting a constructed building or edifice, derived from the root בנה (to build); used interchangeably for physical structures.
In the other Testament 1 word
- οἰκοδομή oikodomḗ · G3619 · building, structure, to build up
- Greek translation equivalent for a constructed building or structure; used in LXX and NT for physical buildings and the act of building.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Buildings001003002001
- The word denotes a building, directly named by its own gloss.
Word family 8 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4746. meqareh מְקָרֶה noun [masculine] beam-work; — Ecc 10:13.
מְקָרֶה noun [masculine] beam-work; — Ecc 10:13.
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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