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title: כרבל — be-mantle · The Tanakh dictionary
description: כרבל (3736), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: be-mantle. BDB 1906: vb. denom. be-mantle quadril. bind round. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# כרבל

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«כרבל» in the Tanakh dictionary: **be-mantle** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 3736 · **BDB:** כרבל

### Glosses

\[was\].wrapped (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

be-mantle [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3736/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. denom. be-mantle quadril. bind round [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3736/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. either denom. be-mantle (from Biblical Aramaic כַּרְבְּלָא Dn 3:21, if this = mantle, and not (Marti Gl.) = Assyrian karballatu, cap (but ‘Kriegs\[?\]-mantel,’ Zehnpfund BAS ii, 535)), or poss. quadril. bind round (from כבל, with ins. ר);—only pt. pass. מְכֻרְבָּל בִּמְעִיל בּוּץ 1 Ch 15:27 bemantled with a robe of byssus.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «כרבל» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3736/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Chronicles 15:27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.15.27/)

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וְדָוִ֞יד מְכֻרְבָּ֣ל ׀ בִּמְעִ֣יל בּ֗וּץ וְכָל־הַלְוִיִּם֙ הַנֹּשְׂאִ֣ים אֶת־הָאָר֔וֹן וְהַמְשֹׁ֣רְרִ֔ים וּכְנַנְיָ֛ה הַשַּׂ֥ר הַמַּשָּׂ֖א הַמְשֹֽׁרְרִ֑ים וְעַל־דָּוִ֖יד אֵפ֥וֹד בָּֽד׃

*Word for word:* and David \[was\].wrapped in a.robe of.fine.linen and all the Levites \[who were\].carrying (et) the ark and the singers and Kenaniah the leader the.lifting up the singers and.\[was\] on David an.ephod of.linen

*JPS 1917:* And David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, and all the Levites that bore the ark, and the singers, and Chenaniah the master of the singers in the song; and David had upon him an ephod of linen.

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