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פֶּקַע

peqaʻ · H6497 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. gourd-shaped

    Something shaped as a gourd

    Examples

    1 Kings 6:18 There was cedar inside the house, carved in the shape of gourds and open flowers; everything was cedar, there was no stone visible.

    1 Kings 7:24 Under its brim gourds went around encircling it ten to a cubit, completely surrounding the Sea; the gourds were in two rows, cast with the rest.

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

What it doesIt is the subject

2 occurrences in 2 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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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Semantic domains 1 entry
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פֶּקַע denotes a knop or ornamental gourd-shaped bud, a decorative shape carved into the cedar paneling of Solomon's temple in 1 Kings 6:18 and into the lampstand of the tabernacle in Exodus 25:31 and its parallel descriptions.
Word family 2 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

פֶּקַעpeqaʻ · H6497פַּקֻּעָה paqquʻâh · H6498 · wild gourd · 1×
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6497. peqaim מְּקָעִים noun masculine1Ki 7:24 plural carved wood or metal ornaments,…
H6497. peqaim
מְּקָעִים noun masculine1Ki 7:24
plural carved wood or metal ornaments, either ball-, knob-shaped (Löwp. 332 f.) of gourd-shaped (so most; compare following; Syriac flowers [Lexicons]); — 1Ki 6:18; 1Ki 7:24 (twice in verse).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Shape3 occurrences

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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