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title: אוֹפָן — wheel · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אוֹפָן (212), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 35 times: wheel. BDB 1906: n.m. wheel. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אוֹפָן

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«אוֹפָן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **wheel** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 35 times · **Key:** 212 · **BDB:** אוֹפַן

### Glosses

wheels (16); a.wheel (5); the.wheels (5)

### Meaning (OSHB)

wheel [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/212/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. wheel [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/212/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m.Ez 1:20 wheel.—abs. אוֹפַן 1 K 7:32 +; אוֹפָן Ez 1:16 +; cstr. אוֹפַן 1 K 7:33 Is 28:27; אֹפַן Ex 14:25; pl. אוֹפַנִּים 1 K 7:32 +; cstr. אוֹפַנֵּי 1 K 7:30; אוֹפַנֵּיהֶם Ez 10:12, etc.— wheel of chariot (מֶרְכָּבָה) Ex 14:25 1 K 7:33 Na 3:2; of (threshing) cart (עֲגָלָה) Is 28:27 cf. Pr 20:26 (as instr. of punishment). wheels in Ezek.’s vision Ez 1:15, 16(×3), 19(×2), 20(×2), 21, (del. Co) 21; 3:13; 10:6, 9(×4), 10(×2), 12(×3), 13, 16(×2), 19; 11:22. wheels of the ten bases beneath the lavers in Sol.’s temple 1 K 7:30, 32(×3), 33.

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Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 21 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אוֹפָן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/212/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Proverbs 20:26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.20.26/)

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מְזָרֶ֣ה רְ֭שָׁעִים מֶ֣לֶךְ חָכָ֑ם וַיָּ֖שֶׁב עֲלֵיהֶ֣ם אוֹפָֽן׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].winnowing wicked.\[people\] a.king wise and he.brought.back over them a.wheel

*JPS 1917:* A wise king sifteth the wicked, and turneth the wheel over them.

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[Ezekiel 10:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.10.13/)

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לָא֖וֹפַנִּ֑ים לָהֶ֛ם קוֹרָ֥א הַגַּלְגַּ֖ל בְּאָזְנָֽי׃

*Word for word:* to the wheels to them it.was.called the wheel in ears my

*JPS 1917:* As for the wheels, they were called in my hearing The wheelwork.

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