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title: יַרְכָה — flank · The Tanakh dictionary
description: יַרְכָה (3411), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 28 times: flank. BDB 1906: flank, side extreme parts, recesses. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# יַרְכָה

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«יַרְכָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **flank** — 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:** 28 times · **Key:** 3411 · **BDB:** יַרְכָה

### Glosses

remotest.parts (7); the.innermost.parts (7); parts (5)

### Meaning (OSHB)

flank [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3411/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

flank, side extreme parts, recesses [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3411/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** flank, side, du. extreme parts, recesses;—sf. יַרְכָֿתוֹ Gn 49:13; du. יַרְכָתַיִם Ex 26:27; 36:32 + Ez 46:19 Qr (Kt ירכתם); יַרְכָתָ֑יִם Ex 26:23; 36:28; cstr. יַרְכְּתֵי Ju 19:1 + 20 times + 1 K 6:16 Qr (Kt ירכותי);— side, i.e. further side of Zebulun, poet. for more distant border of the his territory Gn 49:13. elsewhere always du. the two thighs, i.e. fig. angle, recess, extreme parts: as recesses of Mt. Ephr. Ju 19:1, 18; of Lebanon 2 K 19:23 = Is 37:24; of recesses or innermost part of a cave 1 S 24:4; a house Am 6:10 ψ 128:3; the pit (בּוֹר) Is 14:15 (‖ שְׁאוֹל), Ez 32:23; a ship Jon 1:5; יַרְכְּתֵי צָפוֹן remote parts of the north Is 14:13 Ez 38:6, 15; 39:2 ψ 48:3 (but here Lag proposes יר׳ רצון); יַרְכְּתֵי אָ֑רֶץ remote parts of earth Je 6:22; 25:32; 31:8; 50:41; of a long building, extreme or hinder part, so of tabernacle Ex 26:22, 23, 27; 36:27, 28, 32 (all P); of temple 1 K 6:16; of Ezek.’s temple Ez 46:19.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 28 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «יַרְכָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3411/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 14:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.14.15/)

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אַ֧ךְ אֶל־שְׁא֛וֹל תּוּרָ֖ד אֶל־יַרְכְּתֵי־בֽוֹר׃

*Word for word:* nevertheless to Sheol you.have.been.brought.down to \[the\].remotest.parts of.\[the\].pit

*JPS 1917:* Yet thou shalt be brought down to the nether-world, to the uttermost parts of the pit.

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[Exodus 26:22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.26.22/)

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וּֽלְיַרְכְּתֵ֥י הַמִּשְׁכָּ֖ן יָ֑מָּה תַּעֲשֶׂ֖ה שִׁשָּׁ֥ה קְרָשִֽׁים׃

*Word for word:* and for the.innermost.parts of the.tabernacle westward you.will.make six frames

*JPS 1917:* And for the hinder part of the tabernacle westward thou shalt make six boards.

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